Folk Music

Thanushree Manivel
What is folk
music?
• Music that has its roots in or
is composed in the manner of
traditional popular culture.
Folk music is sometimes
uncredited and passed down
orally from generation to
generation.
• Folk music came from the
word volk which means people.
• Essentially, folk music is a
music genre that includes both
traditional folk music (many of
it dating back centuries) and
contemporary folk music,
which evolved during what
was called the ‘folk revival’ of
the mid 20th century.
Instruments of folk music
violin (known as
Voice the fiddle in the acoustic guitar Flute
folk setting)

Whistle Pipes Accordion Melodeon

Mandolin Harmonica Tenor banjo

 Facts

It may have
The music is It has tended,
themes of
played on historically,
cultural or
traditional to be rural in
national
instruments origin
identity
 Folk Music

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