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3 days ago · The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music.
2 days ago · In this work we analyse the elements of Eastern European folk music incorporated in Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. First, the work is placed in a musical-historical context, and the ethnomusicological area of Bartók's interest as well as his connection to musical creativity is shown. Based on the author's transcriptions of folk music from the territory of Hungary and neighboring ...
17 hours ago · Romani music plays an important role in central and eastern European countries such as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, and the style and performance practices of Romani musicians have influenced European classical composers such as Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms.
1 day ago · The former insularity of English life has been replaced by a cosmopolitan familiarity with all things exotic: fish and chips have given way to Indian, Chinese, and Italian cuisine, guitar-based rock blends with South Asian rap and Afro-Caribbean salsa, and the English language itself abounds in neologisms drawn from nearly every one of the world...
5 days ago · In Mexico, for example, the history of the suppression of Indigenous musics greatly impacted the soundscape, such that even the Zapatista political movement (1994 ff.) that champions oppressed Mayans uses the European-influenced genre of corrido (traditional Mexican ballad) for its national anthem (“El Himno Zapatista”), rather than surviving remnants of Mayan music in the rural areas.
2 days ago · The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music. It is a mixture of music influenced by the music of Europe, Indigenous peoples, West Africa, Latin America, Middle East, North Africa, amongst many other places.
3 days ago · Alys Beach, Florida. Robbie Caponetto. With its sun-bleached white buildings marked by curvy rooflines and hidden-away courtyards, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were in Santorini. But this is 30A, the scenic Florida highway that snakes along the cerulean Gulf of Mexico. While the stretch is home to a number of charming beach towns ...
