Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Some songs never really age, they simply travel. Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), originally released as the ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, the most popular rock and roll subgenre was, without a doubt, folk rock. Popularized by groups and artists such as Bob Dylan, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and CSN, ...

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 ...

Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...

Graeme Smith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Folk lovers, we are bringing you 10 easiest folk songs to play on acoustic guitar so you don’t think we forgot about you. Folk songs date from 19th century and had many definitions through the years.

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

It’s both May Day and launch night for Goblin Band’s debut EP, and the mood inside London’s MOTH Club is febrile. The set is chaotic, joyful and at times surreal – for ‘Turmut Hoer’, drummer Paul ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. You’re probably familiar with the concept of evolution. Living things evolve by accumulating genetic changes, which are ...