Genres

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- Acoustic, Soul and Folk


Sounds Like: Mumford and Sons, Bombay Bicycle club, Destiny's Child

Acoustic music- Compromises music that solely or primarily uses intruments

Folk music- Is an english term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated from 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways; as music trasmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles.







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History

 



Throughout most of human prehistory and history, listening to recorded music was not possible. Music was made by common people during both their work and leisure. The work of economic production was often manual and communal. Manual labor often included singing by the workers, which served several practical purposes. It reduced the boredom of repetitive tasks, it kept the rhythm during synchronized pushes and pulls, and it set the pace of many activities such as planting, weeding, reaping, threshing, weaving, and milling. In leisure time, singing and playing musical instruments were common forms of entertainment and history-telling—even more common than today, when electrically enabled technologies and widespread literacy make other forms of entertainment and information-sharing competitive.
Opinions differed on the origins of folk music. Some said it was art music that was changed and probably debased by oral transmission—others said it reflects the character of the race that produced it.Traditionally, the cultural transmission of folk music is through learning by ear, although notation may also be used. The competition of individual and collective theories of composition set different demarcations and relations of folk music with the music of tribal societies on the one hand and of "art" and "court" music on the other. The traditional cultures that did not rely upon written music or had less social stratification could not be readily categorized. In the proliferation of popular music genres, some traditional folk music became also referred to "World music" or "Roots music".

The American conception of "folk composition" has often drawn on Afro-American music