Different people have different opinions and views on what exactly folk music is. Sometimes people feel quite strongly as to whether something should or shouldn’t be labeled as folk music. In general view, there are many different types for the term “folk music” but we normally observe two of them. First one can be referred to as traditional music. it is normally very old and nobody really knows who the composer is but it’s a factthat it belongs to ordinary people withing a culture. It is the sort of music which is sung by the people or groups, not the type of music recorded in a studio or performed on a stage. People usually learn this music from their ancestors or by singing them with others. These tones are passed down from generations to generations and are loved by all generations. These tones are often changed as they are passed down from generations to generations. This change can be referred to as “folk process”. Although, folk music is loved by many people, these days, people don’t sing folk music as much as they used to do it in the past but it is still singed by the people sometimes on occasions and special traditional events. The oldest and very commonly singed folk music is the “happy birthday song”, camp songs, labor songs, protest songs, and children songs. (Hayden, 2003) Hence, any music composed in the idiom of its oral tradition is called as “folk music”. Despite of all these facts, folk music has still a greater influence on a country’s culture. (Jurek, 2013) The other type of folk music is that music, which is sung to sound like the previous sort. Nowadays, it is the most liked form of music. Outside of musicology, this type of “folk music” is more frequently used to describe as a style of music that has evolved rapidly over the last century and it doesn’t mean “folky” at all, means if you hear some critics and fans alike referring to an artist as “folky” that doesn’t means that this artist is borrowing or singing a tone from any
Different people have different opinions and views on what exactly folk music is. Sometimes people feel quite strongly as to whether something should or shouldn’t be labeled as folk music. In general view, there are many different types for the term “folk music” but we normally observe two of them. First one can be referred to as traditional music. it is normally very old and nobody really knows who the composer is but it’s a factthat it belongs to ordinary people withing a culture. It is the sort of music which is sung by the people or groups, not the type of music recorded in a studio or performed on a stage. People usually learn this music from their ancestors or by singing them with others. These tones are passed down from generations to generations and are loved by all generations. These tones are often changed as they are passed down from generations to generations. This change can be referred to as “folk process”. Although, folk music is loved by many people, these days, people don’t sing folk music as much as they used to do it in the past but it is still singed by the people sometimes on occasions and special traditional events. The oldest and very commonly singed folk music is the “happy birthday song”, camp songs, labor songs, protest songs, and children songs. (Hayden, 2003) Hence, any music composed in the idiom of its oral tradition is called as “folk music”. Despite of all these facts, folk music has still a greater influence on a country’s culture. (Jurek, 2013) The other type of folk music is that music, which is sung to sound like the previous sort. Nowadays, it is the most liked form of music. Outside of musicology, this type of “folk music” is more frequently used to describe as a style of music that has evolved rapidly over the last century and it doesn’t mean “folky” at all, means if you hear some critics and fans alike referring to an artist as “folky” that doesn’t means that this artist is borrowing or singing a tone from any