Dân ca
Dân ca, Dân nhạc hoặc Âm nhạc dân gian bao gồm cả âm nhạc truyền thống cũng như thể loại âm nhạc phát triển từ đó trong quá trình phục hồi văn hóa dân gian thế kỷ 20. Thuật ngữ này lần đầu xuất hiện vào thế kỷ 19 nhưng ban đầu được sử dụng để chỉ loại hình âm nhạc có từ trước đó.

Một số loại âm nhạc dân gian có thể được gọi là nhạc thế giới.

Định nghĩa

Dân ca truyền thống được định nghĩa theo nhiều cách khác nhau: âm nhạc truyền khẩu; âm nhạc của người bình dân; âm nhạc mà người sáng tác vô danh, hoặc âm nhạc được biểu diễn theo phong tục trong một thời gian dài.  Những điều này tương phản với các thể loại âm nhạc thương mại và cổ điển. Có người định nghĩa dân ca là những bài hát cổ không rõ người sáng tác; người khác cho rằng đó là loại hình âm nhạc được lưu truyền và phát triển bằng cách truyền khẩu hoặc được biểu diễn theo phong tục trong một thời gian dài.

Đặc điểm
Từ góc độ lịch sử, âm nhạc dân gian truyền thống có những đặc điểm sau:
Truyền khẩu
Không rõ tác giả
Thành quả của tập thể
Mang nét văn hóa dân tộc
Sử dụng trong những thời gian đặc biệt

Chủ đề
Các bản nhạc dân gian có được phân loại theo các chủ đề như
Bài ca chiến tranh
Bài ca uống rượu
Bài ca lao động
Bài ca tình yêu
Bài ca trẻ con

Chú thích

Tham khảo
Donaldson, Rachel Clare, 2011 Music for the People: the Folk Music Revival And American Identity, 1930–1970 , Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, May 2011, Nashville, Tennessee

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 Folk Alliance International   Prominent folk music organization
 Foxbeard Folk Music   Sharing Folk Music
 The Crooked Road: Heritage music trail-A 243-mile historical music oriented trail.
 Folk Alley A Non-Profit Listener Supported Folk Music Resource, Streaming online since 2004
 Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection Howard B. Waltz Music Library, University of Colorado Boulder
 
 Free sheet music (songs)
 Folk Radio UK - Playing folk music of the British Isles and beyond + the latest Folk Music News and Reviews
 
 Welsh Ballads Website 
 The Traditional Music in England project, World and Traditional Music section at the British Library Sound Archive

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