ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FOLK
Old English folc; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German folk.
10 QUOTES WITH «FOLK»
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folk.
What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.
Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOLK»
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folk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
folk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The interaction between these groups created the many rich hybrids that are American folk music.
Richard Carlin, Ronald Cohen, 2005
This book approaches such beliefs as one of the most important aspects of ethnography. Surely what a people believe about their language is as important as any other key to an understanding of their culture.;
Nancy A. Niedzielski, Dennis Richard Preston, 2003
An exciting exploration of the Russian lower mythology, Russian Folk Belief offers a fascinating glimpse into the admixture of pagan and Christian elements which comprise the world view of the Russian peasant.
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Queer as
Folk: The Book
A richly illustrated companion to the popular Showtime series about a group of gay men and women in Pittsburgh features season-by-season episode synopses, interviews with members of the cast and crew, profiles of the main characters, and ...
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Folk Toys: Patterns and Projects for the Scroll Saw
With a scroll saw, some scrap wood, a touch of paint, and this book, you can create fascinating, movable toys from the past.
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
Defines folk music and traces its history and development in the United States, including its resurgence in popularity starting in the 1950s.
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American Ballads and
Folk Songs
John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of ...
John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, Harold William Thompson, 1934
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Quest of the
Folk, CLS Edition: Antimodernism and Cultural ...
The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay.
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An Introduction to Japanese
Folk Performing Arts
Terence Lancashire provides a valuable introductory guide to the major performance types as understood by Japanese scholars.
Professor Terence A Lancashire, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOLK»
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folk is used in the context of the following news items.
Montana Folk Festival ... - The Montana Standard
Neither rain, nor hail, nor ominous skies daunted the spirits of fest-goers as the second day of the Montana Folk Festival got underway in ... «Montana Standard, Jul 15»
Hong Kong audience joins Chyi Yu in 'campus folk songs' | South …
Few performers can move a full-house audience to sing and clap the way Taiwan's legendary folk singer Chyi Yu did on Friday. She got the ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
Montana Folk Festival-goers endure rain, hail - NBCMontana.com
Thousands of people filled Uptown Butte for the second day of the 2015 Montana Folk Festival, despite wet weather. «NBC Montana, Jul 15»
Green River Festival kicks off 29th year with local folk, food and …
The Green River Festival got off to a good start this Friday night on the grounds of Greenfield Community College. The folk fest, which ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
Folk Fest sees gentle harmonies and folk legends fill the stages on …
Paul Long leads a jam circle at the Winnipeg Folk Festival at Birds Hill Provincial Park on Saturday, July 11, 2015. Mikaela MacKenzie ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
Visual Twists in Tribal Folk Tales - The New Indian Express
Last year at an artistic conclave when artist, visual illustrator and entrepreneur SCD Balaji tried giving Indian folk art forms a contemporary twist ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
Fans getting set for Ugie Folk Festival - Inverurie Herald
The Bad Pennies will headline the Ugie Folk Festival. ... Folk fans are gearing up for a popular North-east event later this month. The Ugie Folk ... «Inverurie Herald, Jul 15»
A touch of country and western sprinkled on Royston Folk Club …
The band is due to perform at the Royston Folk Club at the end of the month, and they told The Crow that they are just as excited as the ... «Royston Crow, Jul 15»
Asheville's 88th Annual Mountain Dance & Folk Festival returns to …
Asheville, NC – The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, the country's longest running folk festival, now in its 88th year of highlighting mountain ... «Caldwell Journal, Jul 15»
Canadian-Celtic folk band The Duhks come to the Earlville Opera …
Earlville >> The following performances will happen at the Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., at 8 p.m. unless otherwise specified. For more ... «Oneida Dispatch, Jul 15»
