# Folk Traditions

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Category: Music
Slides: 13
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:42.636Z
Tags: music, folk, traditions

## Summary

A definition by Cecil Sharp, the English collector who first systematized the term: folk music is music handed down by oral tradition, varying as it passes from person to person, with no fixed authoritative version. Key sections include: Folk Traditions; What is folk ?; Appalachian; The Blues; Celtic; Fado; Mariachi; Other living traditions; The revivals; The songbook.

## Slide Outline

1. Folk Traditions
2. What is folk ?
3. Appalachian
4. The Blues
5. Celtic
6. Fado
7. Mariachi
8. Other living traditions
9. The revivals
10. The songbook
11. The Smithsonian & the field
12. Folk instruments
13. Watch this performance

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