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Folk music is a
music genre that
includes traditional folk music and the
contemporary genre that
evolved from the
former during the 20th-century
folk...
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language learning.
Lullabies of
Europe (for pre-school and
early learners),
FolkDC (for primary), and the
recent PopuLLar (for secondary). In addition, the...
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celebrated each
summer on the Mall in Washington,
DC. A
fourth category includes customs related to
folk beliefs.
Walking under a
ladder is just one of many...
- The
Newport Folk Festival is an
annual American folk-oriented
music festival in Newport,
Rhode Island,
which began in 1959 as a
counterpart to the Newport...
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environmental activist. A
filmmaker who
specialized in the
subject of
folk music, her
credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work
Songs in a Texas...
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Contemporary folk music refers to a wide
variety of
genres that
emerged in the mid-20th
century and
afterwards which were ****ociated with
traditional folk music...
- "Solomon Grundy" is an
English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud
Folk Song
Index number of 19299. The
rhyme has
varied very
little since it was
first collected...
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Folk Catholicism can be
broadly described as
various ethnic expressions and
practices of
Catholicism intermingled with
aspects of
folk religion. Practices...
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Seeger took a job in Washington,
D.C., ****isting Alan Lomax, a
friend of his father's, at the
Archive of
American Folk Song of the
Library of Congress...
- many as a
folk hero and role
model for
achieving a
lavish lifestyle and
giving back to the
local community.
Edmond was born in Washington,
D.C. to Constance...
