In South Korea, some 150 historic crafts, customs and celebrations are recognised as National Intangible Cultural Heritage. Experience them to gain a deeper insight into the country, which honours its ...

What's more, it lies in its cultural value. From those paper-cuttings, we can find the ancient folk customs and traditions of Loess Plateau in the middle reaches of Yellow River. It is a ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

Bitch, devil’s fiddle, some traditional Polish folk instruments may have brow-raising names, but all of them have a unique and fascinating sound which lends Polish folk its inimitable cachet. Ligawka ...

The chart visualizes two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair”—one sung, one spoken—by Patrick Savage, a study author and participant. The song unfolds at around half the ...

He paid close attention to the secondary literature, quoting works on Chinese folk customs by writers such as Léon Wieger and Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, but also a large number of traditional Chinese ...

Folk customs and belief in magic existed across the world for centuries. In Western Europe, witches were both respected and feared for their powers. Folk beliefs like curing the sick from evil ...

The Kentucky Folk Art Center (KFAC) is one of Kentucky's unique places. The center houses a permanent collection of nearly 1,400 pieces of regional folk art. The works displayed portray the culture ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular culture or group of people. Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created by ordinary people within a ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Zachary Folk is a freelance breaking news reporter at the Daily Beast. He is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and previously covered breaking news, politics, and local New York City news ...

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