Folk-pop
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Folk-pop is a musical style that either blends contemporary folk songs with large, sweeping pop arrangements or modern pop music blenced with acoustic-based folk arrangements using traditional instruments. Since the Early 2000s, Pop folk can be attributed to a blend of pop, electronic music with local folk melodies popular in the Balkan region and Islamic countries.
History
[edit]Recording production values created a unblemished style that appealed to a mass audience, and thus led to commercial success as measured by high record sales, particularly as illustrated by hit records reaching the Top 40 on AM radio in the United States. Folk-pop developed during the 1960s folk music and folk rock boom.[1] Key example of folk-pop artists include the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary with contracts with major record labels (Capitol Records and Warner Bros. Records, respectively). The commercially successful artists stood in contrast to more politically charged and uncompromising folk music performers such as Joan Baez, Odetta, Phil Ochs, Nina Simone, the Weavers, Melanie, Steve Goodman, Steve Forbert, Leonard Cohen and Glenn Yarbrough,[1] or in more recent decades Tracy Chapman or Ani DiFranco.
Genres like Arabic pop in Arabic countries, Modern laïka in Greece, Chalga in Bulgaria, Manele in Romania, Turbo folk in ex-Yugoslavia countries, and Rabiz in Armenia belongs to modern pop folk. Styles of modern pop folk is also popular in Turkey , Azerbaijan and Central Asia.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Folk-Pop". AllMusic. Retrieved October 12, 2020.