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Devils & Dust , the upcoming folk album from Bruce Springsteen , will be his nineteenth released album?
parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular , and folk -like music from 1790 until 1900 ?
the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?
the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues ?
The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass , Mexican , Eastern European , African , zydeco , soul and country influences?
Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the the "singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music 's rebirth?
composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?
Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú , began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group ?
jazz saxophonist John Coltrane 's song "Ogunde " is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
bush ballads are a folk music and poetry tradition in the Australian Outback ?
"Go, Cubs, Go " was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
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Question 1 : The first folk revival influenced western ________ .
Question 2 : Which of the following titles did Folk music have?
Question 3 : What format does Folk music follow?
Question 4 : ________ is often included, though significant research showing that this has any close musical relationship is lacking.
Question 5 : The ________ recorded many albums.
Question 6 : Since the 1970s a genre of "contemporary folk" fueled by new singer-songwriters has continued with such artists as Chris Castle , Steve Goodman , and ________ .
Question 7 : The term folk music originated in the 19th century as a term for musical ________ .
Question 8 : A literary interest in the popular ballad was not new: it dates back to Thomas Percy and ________ .
Question 9 : Brittany 's Folk revival began in the 1950s with the "bagadoù" and the "kan-ha-diskan" before growing to world fame through ________ 's work since the mid-1960s.
Question 10 : The Balkan folk music was influenced by the mingling of Balkan ethnic groups in the period of ________ .