folk song

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a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture

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The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be. Constant Lambert

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. Bernice Johnson Reagon

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible. Emilia Clarke

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. Black Francis

Although he had to modify the words of some songs which were too rude for the time, he left his original manuscripts for future students of folk song, thereby preserving many beautiful pieces of music and their lyrics which might otherwise have been lost. Source: Internet

David Allegranti, a writer for Italian newspaper Il Foglio, shared a clip Thursday evening of residents in the city of Siena joining in on what described as a "stirring rendition of a local folk song" that "is as beautiful as it is haunting." Source: Internet

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