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Industrial folk music

Index Industrial folk music

Industrial folk music, industrial folk song, industrial work song or working song is a subgenre of folk or traditional music that developed from the 18th century, particularly in Britain and North America, with songs dealing with the lives and experiences of industrial workers. [1]

45 relations: A. L. Lloyd, Alan Lomax, American Civil War, Appalachian music, Archie Green, Ballad, Billy Bragg, Blackleg Miner, British folk rock, Bruce Springsteen, Casey Jones, Chumbawamba, Deindustrialization, Encyclopædia Britannica, Europe, Ewan MacColl, Folk music, George Korson, Great Britain, Henri de Saint-Simon, Human voice, Industrial Revolution, John Henry (folklore), John Lomax, Kingsport Times-News, Merle Travis, Music hall, Music of Coal, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Popular music, Progressive folk, Protest song, Radio ballad, Roots revival, Sixteen Tons, Steeleye Span, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Topic Records, Woody Guthrie, Work song, Working-class culture, Youngstown (song).

A. L. Lloyd

Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908 – 29 September 1982),Eder, Bruce.

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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Appalachian music

Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States.

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Archie Green

Archie Green (June 29, 1917 – March 22, 2009) was an American folklorist specializing in laborlore (defined as the special folklore of workers) and American folk music.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.

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Blackleg Miner

"Blackleg Miner" is a 19th-century English folk song, originally from Northumberland (as can be deduced from the dialect in the song and the references in it to the villages of Seghill and Seaton Delaval).

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British folk rock

British folk rock (sometimes called electric folk) is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Casey Jones

Jonathan Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) from Jackson, Tennessee, was an American railroader who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad (IC).

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Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba were a British band that formed in 1982 and ended in 2012.

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Deindustrialization

Deindustrialization or deindustrialisation is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Ewan MacColl

James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright and record producer born in Lancashire to Scottish parents.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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George Korson

George Korson (August 8, 1899 – May 23, 1967) was a folklorist, journalist, and historian.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Henri de Saint-Simon

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), was a French political and economic theorist and businessman whose thought played a substantial role in influencing politics, economics, sociology, and the philosophy of science.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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John Henry (folklore)

John Henry is an African American folk hero.

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John Lomax

John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 – January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music.

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Kingsport Times-News

The Kingsport Times News is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Kingsport, Tennessee and distributed in six counties in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.

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Merle Travis

Merle Robert Travis (November 17, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Music of Coal

Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields is a 70-page book and two CD compilation of old and new music from southern Appalachian coalfields.

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Peggy Seeger

Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Progressive folk

Progressive folk was originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, but in the United Kingdom the term became attached to a musical subgenre.

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Protest song

A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).

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Radio ballad

The radio ballad is an audio documentary format created by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Parker in 1958.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Sixteen Tons

"Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in coal mines in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

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Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969.

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Tennessee Ernie Ford

Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres.

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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution

Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution in Britain was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines.

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The Ghost of Tom Joad

The Ghost of Tom Joad is the eleventh studio album, and the second acoustic album, by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen.

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Topic Records

Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival.

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Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.

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Work song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

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Working-class culture

Working-class culture is a range of cultures created by or popular among working-class people.

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Youngstown (song)

"Youngstown" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_folk_music

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