Folk Music Genres – Folk Punk
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When people think of folk music, practically the last thing they think of associating it with is punk. Surprisingly there is such a thing as Folk Punk.
In the early days, folk punk was known as rogue folk and is a fusion of folk music and punk rock. The Pogues were one of the 1st bands play this type of music during the early 1980s. They had a great deal of commercial success with this genre of music producing many top 10 hits. Their biggest hit was Fairytale of New York.
The vast majority of folk punk bands write and perform new music that they write themselves. In the folk genre this is unusual, most other folk bands re-work traditional lyrics and music when they perform. When folk punk bands do use traditional folk music as a basis for their songs, they tend to use sea shanties and gypsy music.
The Pogues, Billy Bragg, The Levellers, and Oysterband are amongst the biggest folk punk bands. The Men They Couldn’t Hang are another popular punk folk band, but are not yet very commercially successful. They perform an English form of folk punk, that a lot of people, who do not normally like folk music or punk rock, like.
American folk punk is a newer even more popular genre of folk punk. Violent Femmes pioneered this genre of music. Popular American Folk bands include Ghost Mice, The Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Defiance, Ohio and Against Me!. The majority of these bands record on the Plan-It-X-Record label. Most American folk punk bands started their careers playing traditional punk rock, but switched to American folk punk in the early 2000s. American folk punk music is usually politically motivated and anarchist in nature, so it is closer to its punk rock roots than folk punk is.
Celtic punk is a similar genre of folk music that has its roots in Folk punk. It fuses Celtic or Irish music with punk rock. It is also commercially successful, but on a smaller scale than folk punk.
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Thanks for the info. I never heard of such a thing as folk-punk. I guess I’ll have to add something about it to my squidoo lense American Folk Music, Past, Present and Future.