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Exploring Folk Music: A Quiz on Its History and Influence

Test your knowledge of folk music with this engaging quiz that covers its history, influential artists, and cultural significance.

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1 The first folk revival influenced western ________.

2 Which of the following titles did Folk music have?

3 What format does Folk music follow?

4 ________ is often included, though significant research showing that this has any close musical relationship is lacking.

5 The ________ recorded many albums.

6 Since the 1970s a genre of "contemporary folk" fueled by new singer-songwriters has continued with such artists as Chris Castle, Steve Goodman, and ________.

7 The term folk music originated in the 19th century as a term for musical ________.

8 A literary interest in the popular ballad was not new: it dates back to Thomas Percy and ________.

9 Brittany's Folk revival began in the 1950s with the "bagadoù" and the "kan-ha-diskan" before growing to world fame through ________'s work since the mid-1960s.

10 The Balkan folk music was influenced by the mingling of Balkan ethnic groups in the period of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Devils & Dust, the upcoming folk album from Bruce Springsteen, will be his nineteenth released album.
  • parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from 1790 until 1900.
  • the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style.
  • the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues.
  • The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences.
  • Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the the "singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music's rebirth.
  • composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador".
  • Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú, began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group.
  • jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods".
  • bush ballads are a folk music and poetry tradition in the Australian Outback.
  • "Go, Cubs, Go" was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007.
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