Folk
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Originating Location: 1940s
Originating Era: United States
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Folk music is typically linked with World music, mainly being America's "World" music. It's based in many forms of "traditional" music, like Negro Spirituals, early country music and bluegrass, and the storytelling tradition. In the 1960s, there was a bit of a resurgence of folk music as applied to pop music, with a move to more acoustic and "rootsy" music, and was considered the pop alternative to Rock. The defining feature of Folk is that it is music that anyone can write and any can play - or at least, that's the idea. Most folk music is very simple, which some could say therein lies its strength as a genre.
[edit] Artists in this genre
- Aesop Rock
- Augie March
- Citizen Cope
- Doug Cullen
- Mia Doi Todd
- Pedestrian
- The Libertines
- White Mud Free Way
- Hugh J and The Picnic
- Four Tet
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- Lyrics Born
- Crumb Family, The
- Beck
- John Darnielle
- Savath & Savalas
- Bran Barr
- Devil In The Kitchen
- Doom Engine
- Paul Duncan
- Pogues, The
