How is folk music impacted by geography and history? List several genres and explain how regionalism and era impact folk music lyrics.
What will be an ideal response?
Folk music reflects topics of interest to local people at a given time in history. Sea chanteys were created in places where people worked on or near the water. Cowboy songs were popular in the American West. "The Ballad of Casey Jones" reflects the building on the American railroad, and would have been of limited interest to someone from another country. While some folk songs are timeless because of their wonderful stories or great melodies, others fade into history because they lack interest to people outside of the original folk setting.
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