COLLECTION OF TRADITIONAL FOLK SONG AS A MEANS OF CLASSROOM TEACHING AIDS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Folk music is defined in several ways. It is a music transmitted by mouth, as music commercial and classical styles. This music is also referred to as “traditional music” and in the United States of America as “roots music”
In the mid 20th century is century form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. The process and period is called the (Second) folk revival and reached the zenith in the 1960s.
The most common name for this new form of music is also “folk music”, but is often called “contemporary folk music” or “folk revival music” to make the destination.
This type of folk music also include fushion genres such as folk rock electric folk and others .while such contemporary
folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music it often shares the same English name performers and venue as traditional folk music even individual songs may be a blend of the two. A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions antiquation William. Thomas to describe “The traditional customs and superstitions of the uncultured classes”. The term is further derived from the German expression folk in the sense of “the people as a whole” as applied to popular and national music by JohHerder and the German Romantics over half of a century earier .Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music .However despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries ,there is still no certain definitions of what folk music is .Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms .One meaning after given is that of old song with unknown composers” another is that of music that has been submitted to an evolutionary “process of oral transmission. The fushioning and re fashioning of music by the community that gives it its folk character “such definitions defend upon “[culture]” process, rather than abstract musical characterizing one side of a “continuity and oral transmission….seen as characterizing one side of a cultural dichotomy, the other side of which is found not only in the lower layers of feudal capitalist and some oriental societies but also in “primitive” societies and in parts of “popular cultures” are widely used definition is simply “folk song/music is what people sing”
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COLLECTION OF TRADITIONAL FOLK SONG AS A MEANS OF CLASSROOM TEACHING AIDS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
