Folksinger Nathaniel Riley lost his job as a vegan chef and manager at a Fort Collins restaurant in early March, yet another economic victim of the coronavirus outbreak. So he decided to stay at home ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the English Folk Dance Society. The Folk-Song Society, founded in 1898, was ...

Folk Music Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of research into all aspects of traditional song, music, dance, and drama. It is the journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England's national ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings are like time capsules, each with vast histories waiting to be uncovered. Some have journeyed across decades, even centuries, shape-shifting and meeting each ...

Where does sad music get its sadness from? And whom should you ask—a composer or a cognitive psychologist? Scientific American recently reported on a Tufts University study that purportedly lends ...

When it comes to folk rock songs about breakups and heartbreak, nothing beats Fleetwood Mac. We’d be bold enough to say the majority of the band’s work, especially on Rumours, revolved around the ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...