Different genres of music serve different purposes; this is not a profound take, but rather a simple truth. Pop music serves as sonic and physical entertainment, rock music as a release, and folk ...

Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.

Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily. Called lok ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: When we first meet the character of Teddy Power (played by Ger Kelly) in the new Netflix series Bodkin, he’s seated at a local bar and his stoic silence is attributed to ...

The funny thing about folk music in the 2010s is that none of it really sounded alike. Modern technology has afforded acoustic-minded artists the ability to embellish their lyrics with production ...

Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries. Traditional folk music has been defined as music that comments on cultural or national identity, is played on traditional ...

He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter. By Clay Risen Joe Hickerson, a singer and songwriter who as the lead archivist ...