How do you respect tradition while also making sure you feel like yourself? Matilda Welin explores how re-invented, non-binary national dress is gaining popularity with a new generation. What is your ...

Li Baofeng, a 54-year-old folk artist, recently attended a reality show where her innovative approach to paper-cuttings, which look as colorful as oil paintings, impressed the audience. "Traditional ...

These three female folk artists changed the genre in very important ways, and their stories couldn't be more different than one another.

No music genre is particularly easy to define, but “indie folk” is about as nebulous as they come. In compiling our rankings here, we’ve defined its era as beginning in 1972 with Nick Drake’s seminal ...

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 ...

There has been a great increase recently in the number of popular artists whose songs are influenced by or taken from American folk music—both traditional and modern. The paranoiac need of modern man ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

The best folk music released in 2013 was, almost without exception, of the intensely personal variety. These remarkable albums struggled with addiction and death, coming of age, faith and the ...

Osgood Perkins has carved a distinct niche for himself in modern horror: moody, cerebral, and visually icy, his films often aim for slow-burn dread rather than ...

Folk songs have for ages bound people, immortalized life stories, incited rebellions, and transformed destinies. Amid the increasing mainstreaming of folk music — be it by becoming a hit factor in ...

List of Folk Dances of Different States in India: India is known for its rich cultural heritage and traditions. Dance is a part of life from ancient times to the most cultured communities. Generally, ...