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English folk music

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. Folk music traditionally was preserved and passed on orally within communities, but print and subsequently audio recordings have since become the primary means of transmission.…

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History

Folk clubs

Folk music and the radio

Folk festivals

Forms of folk music

Regional traditions

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English folk music

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English folk music

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related to Folk revivals 1890–1969 · 51
English folk music → American, Anne Gilchrist, Bert Jansch, British Library Sound Archive, Cecil Sharp, Copper Family, Davy Graham, EFDSS, English, English Folk Dance, English Folk Dance Society, English Pastoral School, Ewan MacColl, First World War, Folk Song Society, Folk-Song Society, Francis James Child's, Frank Hinchliffe, Frank Kidson, Fred Jordan
related to The South East · 41
English folk music → Alfred Williams, Alice Gillington, Arguably, As Now Sung, Banbury, Berkshire, Boden, British, Buckinghamshire, Canterbury, Cecil Sharp, Chris Leslie, Chris Wood, English, Even, Fairport's Cropredy Convention, From, George Gardiner, Hampshire, Hertfordshire
related to Folk punk · 15
English folk music → Billy Bragg, Edward II, English, English Country Blues Band, Folk, Hang, In, Leaders, Let's Polkasteady, Oyster Band, Red Hot Polkas, The, The Men They Couldn't, The Pogues, Tiger Moth
related to Origins · 15
English folk music → AD, Anglo-Saxon, Britain, Cædmon, English, In, Morris, Robin Hood, Since, Some, The Venerable Bede's, We, William Langland's Piers Plowman, Worde's, Wynkyn

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folk songs music english century including like many dance song traditional revival ballads also rock england region first later british

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danceinstance ofalong with other aspects of popular culture0.80text
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Dando Shaftinstance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
The Treesinstance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
Spirogyrainstance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
Forestinstance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
and Jan Dukes De Greyinstance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
but commercial success was elusive for these bandsinstance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
most had broken up or moved in very different directions by about 1973instance ofwith groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group0.80text
Pentangleinstance ofwhen it was taken up by groups0.80text

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