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 ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

Bob Sturm receives funding from AHRC-Labex joint UK-France programme. Oded Ben-Tal receives funding from AHRC-Labex joint UK-France programme. Our AI is trained so that given one ABC symbol it can ...

Having begun in the 1940's and then surging in popularity in the 1960's, American folk-music again is enjoying a revival of sorts. Maybe it's because of the recent wars in the world and people yearn ...