THE

GENREINDIE FOLK

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

• THE INDIE/FOLK MUSIC GENRE AROSE IN THE LATE 1990’s, AMERICA FROM SINGER/SONGWRITERS IN THE INDIE/ROCK COMMUNITY

• THE GENRE WAS INFLUENCED BY FOLK MUSIC SCENES OF THE 1950’s , 1960’s AND EARLY 1970’s

• INDIE/FOLK MUSIC COMBINES THE TWO GENRES OF INDIE ROCK MUSIC AND FOLK MUSIC AS ONE

• SOME EARLY ARTISTS INCLUDED LOU BARLOW, JEFF BUCKLEY AND ELLIOTT SMITH

• IT IS A GENRE WHICH IS OFTEN RELATED TO “FREAK FOLK”, “BAROQUE POP” AND “NEW WEIRD AMERICA”

Lou Barlow

Jeff Buckley

Elliott Smith

INSTRUMENTS USED:

THE TYPICAL INSTRUMENTS USED IN THE INDIE/FOLK GENRE ARE:

ACOUSTIC GUITAR

DOUBLE BASE

PIANO

HARMONIUM

DRUMS

VIOLIN

MANDOLIN

BANJO

ELECTRIC GUITAR

ARTIST’S:

THE INDIE/FOLK GENRE HAS GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THE EARLY 2000’s AND NOW INCLUDES

VARIOUS ARTIST’s SUCH AS:

MUMFORD AND SONS

THE CIVIL WARS

BEN HOWARD

IRON AND WINE

OF MONSTERS AND MEN

CONVENTIONS:

THERE ARE MANY CONVENTIONS SEEN IN INDIE/FOLK GENRE MUSIC VIDEOS AS SEEN THROUGHOUT THE VIDEO OF MUMFORD AND SONS “LITTLE LION MAN”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E

BAND SEEN TO BE PLAYING SOME SORT OF GIG WHICH NOT ONLY PROMOTES THE BAND BUT ALLOWS THE AUDIENCE TO SPECTATE, AS IF THEY WERE THERE AT THE CONCERT THEMSELVES

EXAGGERATED INSTRUMENT PLAYING

CUTS CHANGE DEPENDING ON THE PACE OF EACH PART OF THE SONG

FADE TO BLACK