Why folk songs are important

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Call Us. Contact Us Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Believe Jeremy Spencer. It keeps the past alive Society needs to remember their past and keep it alive.

It keeps you connected to your culture and heritage Your cultural heritage is what gives you an identity. Comments This post currently has no comments. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Folk songs are also great because they make it so easy to teach history and culture. Because the purpose of folk song is to describe human experiences, it is not surprising that a variety of folk songs exist. Answer: It helps us to look back to the culture which our ancestors gave us.

It is important to study and listen to Filipino music because we can use it as a tool in handling and explaining our culture to the other generation. Folk songs had greatly influenced our music in any way. Answer: Folk songs represent the culture of contemporary society just as they represent the culture of past generations. Folk songs are most often written to tell a story about the human condition, and many of these stories are about finding or losing love, deceit, war, and natural disasters.

People Unique and easy to distinguish from people from other places. Connect to family, tribe, traditions. People are into same sorts of activities and occupations and are connected. Psychology People know their place and role in society. People learn these songs by singing them with others.

Often folk songs use archaic or unusual vocabulary that students might not understand right away. Students also love learning about the history of songs. Kids marvel when they learn how old a song is and find out that people have danced and played and sung these songs for decades and even centuries.

Lucy Locket was just a funny name and losing a pocket was silly. How could a pocket fall off your clothes? That all changed a year or so ago. I started to really get into the history and context behind folk songs and made sure to do some research whenever I taught a new song so that I could add little tidbits of information or fun facts.

I was able to tell my students the reasons for those funny word combinations and archaic vocabulary. With a little research I could explain what it meant when the song talked about a specific place or situation. I only took a few minutes of my lesson time, but once I put some focus on teaching the context of the song I was easily able to expand the lesson and teach much more than just the music.

I told students that scholars believe Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher might have been real people who actually lived in London during the reign of Charles II. Ladies would take pockets of fabric and sew a long strap on them to use the pocket like a purse to store their money and valuables either tying it under their skirts or wearing them on top of their clothes like a handbag.

Lucy really needed it and Kitty did not! Conversations with kids about folk songs are important. Folk songs give us an easy medium to make those connections in a quick and tangible way. When I started talking with my kiddos about folk song history and context I was able in just a few minutes to give them a backstory that was interesting and shed light on why we sang what we did.

They understood who this person was and it made the song more real and the game more interesting. I try and give a little context and shed some light on the people, places, and things behind the new folk song.

Let me tell you, my students are way more engaged in the learning and they remember the song so much better. I obviously wanted students to learn music and have lots of fun, but I also wanted to help them develop their language and socials skills.