Folk+Culture

•Folk Culture: refers to the lifestyle of a culture historically handed down through oral tradition, it demonstrates the “old ways” over novelty and relates to a sense of community. If elements of a folk culture are copied by, or moved to, a foreign locale, they will still carry strong connotations of their original place of creation.

•Folk Culture and “folk society” uncritically, in the sense of non-primitive but relatively simple culture types which are rapidly being modified out of existence by increasing contact with modern industrial civilization.

Examples of folk culture: Folk music, folk song, and folk dance are recent expressions. They are extensions of the term folk lore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes."[1] The term is further derived from the German expression Volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier.