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    Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mummers Play and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs in European countries,...
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    Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as...
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    Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
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    Oral literature (redirect from Folk tale)
    Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung as opposed to that which is written, though much oral literature...
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    Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
    customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites....
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    A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading. The...
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  • S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted...
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  • Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles...
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    Millington, Peter (November 12, 2020). "Master Mummers - Folk Play Script: Tenby Guisers' Play - 1857 - L.P.Barnaschone (1857)". www.mastermummers.org...
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    Alexander Folk (born November 5, 1984) is an American football placekicker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college...
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    The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White...
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  • Folk horror is a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural...
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  • Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock. It was popularized in the early 1980s by The Pogues in England...
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    Flash drama Folk play Heroic drama History of theatre Hyperdrama Legal drama Medical drama Melodrama Monodrama Mystery play One act play Political drama...
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    The Folk Implosion is an American band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow and John Davis. It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore...
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    the late 18th and into the 19th century by the Christmas folk plays later known as mummers' plays. Until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned...
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  • Anti-folk (sometimes spelt as antifolk) is a music genre that emerged in the 1980s in New York City, founded by musician, author and comedian, Lach, as...
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    Tragedy (redirect from Tragic play)
    enriched [with ornaments], each used separately in the different parts [of the play]: it is enacted, not [merely] recited, and through pity and fear it effects...
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  • Bibliography of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays & Related Customs". Retrieved 1 Dec 2011. "Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play – 1890". Folk Play Research. Retrieved 1...
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    Queer as Folk is a serial drama television series that ran on Showtime from December 3, 2000, to August 7, 2005. The series was by Cowlip Productions,...
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    A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music, and is not usually used in the classical...
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  • English saying, "there's nowt so queer as folk", meaning "there's nothing as strange as people", and is a word play on the modern-day English definition of...
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  • villages via online play. The game is the first Wii title to be compatible with the Wii Speak accessory, which enables voice chat. City Folk was officially...
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    known as folk epics. Indian folk epics have been investigated by Lauri Honko (1998), Brenda Beck (1982) and John Smith, amongst others. Folk epics are...
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    Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid 20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music...
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  • to play rock versions of folk songs and folk musicians used electric musical instruments to play their own songs, including Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival...
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    playing together both on-stage and backstage, they started working together on various material. Due to the members' main projects, Monsters of Folk did...
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  • Boys Come Out to Play" or "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play" is a nursery rhyme that has existed since at least 1708. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number...
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  • music, folk rock and British folk rock playing, particularly in Britain, Ireland, North America and France. Particularly notable in the folk baroque...
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    Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities (such as indigenous spirits) venerated as saints, but not officially canonized. Since...
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