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Chapter 3: Folk Music

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7 types of folk music
Narrative ballads (Story songs)
Lyric songs
Work songs
Children's songs
Protest songs
Rally songs
Dance music
Narrative Ballad
Also called "story song". Come from New England, orginally brought to England in the 17th through 19th centuries. Originally brought to U.S. from British Isles, particularly Ireland and Scotland. Music is often strophic.
Lyric Song
Derived from British folk music in New England. Includes love songs and ceremonial songs, folk hymns, songs about farming and rural life, songs about industrialization, and songs about freedom. Lyric songs convey emotions and moods in a more private context than a ballad. Musical forms and poetic forms are diverse
Work Songs
Comes from both black and white American traditions. Songs are often rhythmic, with a fast pace. Often are call and response. Sea chanties, railroad songs, and lumberman's songs.
Children's Songs
Songs sung by and for children, including lullabies, camp songs, and game songs. These are usually short, simple and functional
Vernacular
language of the people
Vernacular music
the music of the people, in the language of the people.
What are the roots of traditional folk music
songs of Anglo-Americans (New Englanders whose roots were in Britain), songs of African Americans (Southern blacks whose roots were in Africa. Also includes Appalachian and Ozark mountain music, Native American music, Irish Dance music, Tex-Mex dance music, cajun and zydeco music, and Jewish klezmer music
Protest songs
Emerged mid 19th century. Songs with words that seek to help improve social conditions
Rally songs
Songs that promote union organization, political candidates and patriotism
Dance music
Instrumental music arranged for string bands, featuring the fiddle and banjo in the 19th century.
Tone bending
Altering a pitch slightly according to established performance practice, such as in pop or jazz music.
Blues
A style of music that has exerted considerable influence on jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and other forms of recent American popular music. The word blues can refer to a three-line poetic stanza, a 12-bar musical structure with a specific chord progression, a scale having the flatted blues notes, or a melancholy, soulful feeling.
Boogie Woogie
A style of music that has exerted considerable influence on jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and other forms of recent American popular music. The word blues can refer to a three-line poetic stanza, a 12-bar musical structure with a specific chord progression, a scale having the flatted blues notes, or a melancholy, soulful feeling.
Zydeco
The popular dance and entertainment music of the black Americans living in southwestern Louisiana. Their songs, often sung in a French dialect, combine Cajun music and the blues. Common instruments include the button accordion and rub board (washboard) in addition to electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. Zydeco has become nationally popular from appearances in the 1970s and 1980s by zydeco artists at folk and blues festivals nationally. The original superstar of zydeco was Clifton Chenier.
Rhythm and Blues
(R&B) A style of black popular music that originally featured a boogie-woogie-style piano accompaniment in blues form, a blues singer, and electric guitar. Later, the term R&B referred to any blues-based black popular music. Today, urban R&B is not necessarily blues based.
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