When I was around four years old, my family moved from our village in Bihar to a town in Jharkhand in eastern India. Growing up, whenever I struggled with my studies, my parents would mention the ...

It's officially wedding season! Whether you're tying the knot or celebrating someone who is, you might be on the hunt to find the best wedding songs of all time to commemorate the nuptials. To help ...

You're getting ready to tie the knot, but your Pinterest wedding board doesn't paint the picture of country club chic in swatches of burlap and blush chiffon with bridesmaids pirouetting to Pachelbel ...

It is worth mentioning that this list is far from exhaustive. I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still ...

Flannels and an attitude—Those are the two surface-level similarities between grunge rock and the folk music movement. However, what they don’t have in common, at least extensively, is their sound, ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Think of ...