What is folk music?
Q: What is folk music?
A: Folk music is traditional music that represents the culture or tradition of an area, place, or state. It is passed down orally and not written down.
Q: Who is a folksinger?
A: A folksinger is a person who sings folk songs which are part of folk music.
Q: What are the three categories of Folk Music?
A: The three categories of Folk Music are Folk Singing, Folk Dance, and Folk Instruments.
Q: How did Bob Dylan influence folk music in the 1960s?
A: In the 1960s Bob Dylan started a new type of music by mixing traditional folk song with rock and roll which was called "folk rock".
Q: How does folk music differ from classical music?
A: Folk music is for everybody to play and listen to whereas classical music has been developed mainly by professional musicians for a smaller group of people.
Q: Is all popular culture considered to be folk music?
A: No, although the term "popular culture" or "pop culture" today refers to a kind of music which people can hear through television, radio and other means of recording; in many parts of the world nearly all types of musics are considered to be folk musics but usually it refers specifically to European and American oral traditions.
Q: How has technology changed how we experience folk tunes?
A: Technology such as radio, television, recordings have made it easier for us to access different kinds of musics so that it's harder now to distinguish between various types; also because these technologies make it easier for us to write down these tunes they have become less important as an oral tradition than before.
