traditional folk music

local or regional traditional music that was originally produced in performance and transmitted in community conditions, as well as music written stylistically and/or ideologically within these traditions
Intangible music_genre Q235858
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traditional folk music

Summary

traditional folk music is a music genre[1]. It draws 41 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #507 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • traditional folk music's image is recorded as Osenins KR 2013 Arina42.jpg[3].
  • traditional folk music's instance of is recorded as music genre[4].
  • traditional folk music's GND ID is recorded as 4063854-6[5].
  • traditional folk music's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85049843[6].
  • traditional folk music's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11953379q[7].
  • traditional folk music's subclass of is recorded as folk music[8].
  • traditional folk music's part of is recorded as music tradition[9].
  • traditional folk music's Commons category is recorded as Traditional music[10].
  • traditional folk music's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 2187[11].
  • traditional folk music's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02p0sh1[12].
  • traditional folk music's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as fd980030[13].
  • traditional folk music's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph122303[14].
  • traditional folk music's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph126703[15].
  • traditional folk music's IMSLP ID is recorded as Category:Traditional[16].
  • traditional folk music's HDS ID is recorded as 011885[17].
  • traditional folk music's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Traditional music[18].
  • traditional folk music's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX537925[19].
  • traditional folk music's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 781.62[20].
  • traditional folk music's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10640012[21].
  • traditional folk music's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • traditional folk music's described by source is recorded as DDEX AVS Data Dictionary Version 1[23].
  • traditional folk music's partially coincident with is recorded as ethnic music[24].
  • traditional folk music's partially coincident with is recorded as folk music[25].
  • traditional folk music's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/folk-music[26].
  • traditional folk music's has characteristic is recorded as oral tradition[27].

Why It Matters

traditional folk music draws 41 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #507 of 1,946).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

It has been cited as an influence by folk punk[30], a music genre[31], founded in 1985[32] and musical nationalism[33], a musical movement[34].

FAQs

Who did traditional folk music influence?

traditional folk music has been cited as an influence by folk punk[30] and musical nationalism[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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