Specific definition of folk songs

Folk songs are popular and full of national color, so they are called folk songs or ballads. Folk songs have a long history, so most of their authors are unknown. Folk songs are rich in content, including religion, love, war, labor, drinking, dancing, festivals and so on. Folk songs express the feelings and habits of a nation, so each has its own unique scale and emotional style.

For example, the prosperity of French folk songs, the enthusiasm of Italian folk songs, the simplicity of English folk songs, the indignation of Japanese folk songs, the wildness of Spanish folk songs and the tears of China folk songs all show strong national temperament and color.

Extended data:

Chinese folk

China's folk songs are not defined from the perspective of musicology, but tend to be defined from the perspective of sociology. Folk songs can be considered as pop music or commercial music. It is a kind of music widely circulated among the people, with entertainment and commodity as its main characteristics. It is different from those music works that are only created by groups with certain musical literacy for the purpose of pursuing elegant artistic experience.

The characteristics of folk songs determine the universality of their audience, and also allow many people to fully enjoy the beautiful experience brought by music without music theory knowledge, so they can be widely spread. This is also the advantage of folk songs.

campus folk

Campus folk songs, as the name implies, are widely loved by students and popular on campus, reflecting campus life and students' mood or feelings. They may be called "campus folk songs", "modern folk songs" and "Yuefu folk customs" and so on. Campus folk songs are full of vigor and vitality, full of campus flavor, unpretentious, and completely a manifestation of frank temperament, which sounds very touching.

It vividly reflects the life of young students, showing the youthful vigor, youthful vigor and poetic romance of young people. Generally speaking, its style is simple, lively, positive and energetic, and it is deeply loved and sung by people. Campus folk songs belong to a special phenomenon in the field of music.

Its appearance is related to the popularity of mainland original music and the influence of foreign music. Among the influences of foreign music, campus songs in Taiwan Province Province have the most direct and far-reaching influence. In Chinese mainland's original music, rock music (represented by Cui Jian) promoted the production of campus songs. In addition, European and American pop music and Chinese folk music also have a certain influence on the emergence of campus folk songs.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Folk Songs