Oral Tradition Folk
tagStarted 19th centuryPeak 1900–1940Last big hit still active
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Oral tradition folk is defined less by arrangement than by transmission: songs learned by hearing, remembered imperfectly, and reshaped through repeated local performance.
History
This is the deepest layer of folk repertory, preserved in family, community, church, and regional networks long before records became common teaching tools.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Britannica
- Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Folkways. citeturn10search2turn9search2turn0search16