folksong

How To Use folksong In A Sentence

• In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
• This feature was reflected in the development of Anglo-Irish metrics and was first felt through the rhythms of folksongs.
• For most of the 18th century, little was published beyond a few broadsheets containing topical doggerel allied to better-known folksongs, and until the advent of ballad opera there was little by way of popular theatre.
• Virtuose pastiches on Spanish baroque poetry in frills, and beside them folksong variations of rustic themes, were characteristic elements in the renewal during the 1920s south of the Pyrenees, and they distinguish it undeniably from the manifestos up by the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 - Presentation Speech
• I spent hours and hours, taking down her every word of reminiscence, all the folksongs she knew, and then had a music-teacher friend, notate the music.
• They form genre of folksongs with exquisitely subtle tunes.
• From the living-room upstairs came the twangy refrain of a country-and-western folksong. COMPULSION
• According to tradition, Seeger was inspired by a Cossack folksong he came across in the novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. Archive 2009-08-01
• She would sing Hungarian love-ditties at her work; and somehow calling these "folksongs" did not help matters. Love's Pilgrimage
• Virtuose pastiches on Spanish baroque poetry in frills, and beside them folksong variations of rustic themes, were characteristic elements in the renewal during the 1920s south of the Pyrenees, and they distinguish it undeniably from the manifestos up by the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 - Presentation Speech