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I can see that there was a pretty extensive cleanup of this article a few years ago and it seems to be organized pretty well. However, from the first sentence of the lede, it sounds like a good candidate opportunity for WP:CONSPLIT. "Contemporary folk music," as the section is currently called, really seems to be about the folk music genre (and it's successors) that arose in the 1960s and was derived from a specific folk tradition. It is separate from the traditional and largely non-commercial music that makes up the other folk music topic, and it does not include contemporary music of different folk traditions. To me, the general difference is that "contemporary folk music" is a genre with a specific sound while traditional folk music is a category that encompasses many genres and is defined more by its history. They're different concepts and deserve separate articles. — Ost ( talk) 14:40, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
I agree. I think that contemporary folk music is a rather distinct topic from traditional folk music. I Am A Sandwich ( talk) 04:25, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
I agree too. I see 'contemporary folk music' as modern music, that seeks to imitate traditional folk music by using traditional instruments and singing in an traditional fashion, whether without any modern elements as I think is often the case in psychadelic folk , or by also adding some modern elements as 'folk punk' or 'folk rock'. <br\> Split the article! CN1 ( talk) 23:03, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
The split was done in 2014, albeit without the renaming. North8000 ( talk) 18:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
An individual put a large amount of section tags and three global tags on at once. This is a large article built by many editors with many references. I don't think that the global tags are useful or necessary. Could anyone with specific concerns make them know and then I plan to wait 1-2 months and take off the global tags. North8000 ( talk) 15:26, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Right now, this article mostly takes a global view, especially the first half or so. That is, it avoids defining the topic by reference to
English-language folk music. Later sub-sections are a bit more dominated by English-language coverage.
So this is just to say, let's all keep ultra-aware to maintain (and extend) this commendable neutrality and balance.
Onanoff (
talk) 13:07, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Traditional music and Folk music are synonyms or different concepts? I think Folk music = (Traditional music + Contemporary folk music) = Ethnic music = National music. I propose to discuss. -- Лобачев Владимир ( talk) 08:16, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Recapping and expanding on the above. In short, "folk music" is an English term that can be seen as having two different but related meanings. My approach was to in essentially divide the article into two halves accordingly, but still keep them in the same article due to overlap. While I was gone from Wikipedia for a while, somebody took the "contemporary folk music" half of the article and moved it to a new separate article by that name. I wouldn't have done that, but I have no significant objection to it and it did help regarding article length. So, as a result, we have an unusual structure. The lead of this article covers both. Then the body covers the Traditional folk music half of the topic and the Contemporary folk music article covers the other half of the topic. So under the current structure Contemporary folk music needs to be strongly mentioned/ linked to in this article. I think that the only other viable alternative is to combine the two back into this article. All other alternatives come out to not even having an article named Folk Music which IMO is not viable since the overwhelmingly common term is Folk music and in the eyes of 95% of all English-speaking readers it is a single topic/subject. Sincerely, North8000 ( talk) 21:27, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
I am trying to fit all genres of Folk music on here. I do not want to be interrupted again. May the next person who takes away my edits be blocked for disruptive editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C7:C201:C640:84CB:6F5F:8B7F:3CE3 ( talk • contribs)
There is an RfC ongoing about a topic that contributors to this article may be interested in. It can be found here. JimKaatFan ( talk) 15:05, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
As I go through this article, I see that there are sections without due importance. The first is "First British Folk Revival." Why must it have a separate subsection, when the section above it talks about all revivals? Besides, the references are scarce, and if you were to talk about one in specific it would more than likely be 1940's onward due to it receiving way more coverage. Also, another thing I wish to mention is electronic instruments in folk music. It only makes the article longer (which it already is) without providing real value, in my opinion.-- • Apollo468• 20:37, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
I was following a citation for research I’m doing, and instead of getting search results for the cited article, I found the link below. I have compared several sections of this Wiki entry and this WordPress page, and so far, the only difference I see is the WordPress site doesn't include a picture this Wiki page does. I don’t know if someone copied this entry for their WordPress site or wrote this for their WordPress blog, then copied and pasted it here (though I suspect the former; it just makes more sense).
I’m assuming this isn’t permitted, though I’ve never run into this before. I hope this was the right place to post this discovery.
https://violinsection.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/folksong.pdf
SiobhanElizabeth (
talk) 13:06, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
I don't know the technicalities, but doing so is allowed and common.
I took a quick look just to get an idea of age. Sometime ending about 10 years ago I organized the article into two halves, which is the structure in the article that you linked. Then about 8 years ago during a long absence of mine somebody split those into two articles. So I think that that copy that you linked is in the ballpark of 8-10 years old. North8000 ( talk) 14:31, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
I failed to answer the obvious question. It was created here in Wikipedia and then copied to Wordpress approximately 8-10 years ago. North8000 ( talk) 18:43, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
five aspects of a folk song 41.80.118.202 ( talk) 10:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
I've been researching for a little while and I cannot seem to find the meaning behind this one line of the poem. 2A02:C7C:DD73:BA00:B8DB:8CA2:C4B:F371 ( talk) 08:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)