Folk-pop

Music genre
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
Folk-pop
Stylistic origins
  • Folk
  • pop
Cultural origins1960s

Folk-pop is a broad musical style that includes contemporary folk songs with pop arrangements, and pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements.

History

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).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Folk-Pop". AllMusic. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  • v
  • t
  • e
Folk and indigenous music
Music on the World Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Types and
subgenres
By subject or function
Fusions
Regional
traditions
North America
Indigenous North
American
American
African-American
Country
Canadian
Caribbean
South American
Oceanian
Asian
European
Middle Eastern and
North African
Related
articles
  • v
  • t
  • e
Stylistic origins
Styles
Regional variants
Africa
The Americas
Asia
Europe
Related topics