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