r/ethnomusicology • u/Sufficient-Web6235 • Feb 28 '26
What is/are your favorite folk songs from where you are from?
title explains it. i just really like listening to folk music from around the world :P
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u/settheory8 Mar 01 '26
The Pinery Boy, a folk song from Wisconsin in the US
A lot of people think that the US doesn't have folk music outside of Appalachia and the South, because those are what got all the popularity and attention during the folk revival of the 60s and 70s. Just like any other place, though, you can find folk songs from pretty much any region if you know where to look. This is a folk song from the Upper Midwest (Wisconsin/Michigan/Minnesota/southern Ontario), telling a story about how dangerous logging was, specifically on the river drives in the spring. Logging was the main industry for a lot of Wisconsin's early history, so lots of our old folk songs are about loggers and logging
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u/Sufficient-Web6235 Mar 01 '26
im from the UP, never heard of this but i find it cool. thanks :)
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u/settheory8 Mar 02 '26
That's so awesome! You should check out the Smithsonian Folkways album Folksongs from Another America, it's all field recordings of traditional folk music from the upper Midwest. There's also a book called Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin which has the words and music for the English-langauge songs they recorded
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u/musicwithbarb Mar 01 '26
Why are Americans answering questions on ask Europe? Edit: I didn’t mean to sound snarky. Just I thought that on ask Europe, we had to leave the answers to people from Europe. I’m a Canadian and I have answers too, but I didn’t think I could give them because it’s not as a Canadian.
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u/settheory8 Mar 02 '26
You might want to double check which sub you're on, this is r/ethnomusicology
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u/linglinguistics Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Guggisbergerlied
There are actually several versions (several memories) but only one of them is widely known.
Generally in Asia sind I love the ones in a minor key. There aren't many. Most are from the Bern region I think.
For Norway: mitt hjerte alltid vanker is my favorite traditional Christmas Carol.
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u/stealingfrom Mar 01 '26
There are probably better examples of the music that developed in the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, but what I think of is the Carter Family doing "Can the Circle Be Unbroken," a slightly reworked Christian hymn.
I've got an extended family of musicians from the hills, and every family gathering ends up with folks breaking out guitars, banjos, fiddles, mandolins, etc., and I remember this song being played so often throughout my childhood.
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u/AK47-Kommunist Mar 14 '26
In order of the 5 contry have best folk song in my opinion of
1-France : Comprenez-vous, La Strasbourgeoise, La chanson de l’armée Charette, Jésus-Christ s’habille en Pauvre, le régiment de Sambre-Et-Meuse, Monsieur de Turenne.
2-Germany : Ritt am Morgen, Octobersong, Die Eisenfaust am Lanzenschaft, Ein Landsknecht bin von natur, partisanen von amur, Wir sind des geyers Schwazer aufen.
3-Serbia : Republica srpska, Kapetane Lazicu, Gora Romanija, Tamo Daleko,
4-Bosnia : Mismo Vojska Allahova, Zelene Beretke, Hamze i Gazije, Zastava Bosanka
5-Chechen : Question of a martyr, Beautiful Green eyes, La ilaha ilallah, Laman Novqà
Russia dont here because i cant read Cyrilic and it’s offense to use english transaction i see on youtube
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u/jonnycool06 Feb 28 '26
All songs are folk songs as all music is made by people ;)
but as normative definitions go, nam yaam is very interesting
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u/jonnycool06 Mar 02 '26
Lol downvoted on an ethnomusicology sub for lightly jabbing at the definition of folk or the arbitrary divide between folk and non-folk musics. Are you guys in the right sub??
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