Russian folk music and so on. Each type of folk music is very different and can teach us things about a particular culture. Ballads were a popular kind of folk music. These were folk songs which ...

An oral tradition, folk music was a way for the illiterate masses to pass down stories of war, hardship and the struggle to survive everyday life from generation to generation. Every culture has ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...