Traditional Music Artists :

Folk music, in the most basic sense of the term, is music by and for the common people.The Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary defines it as "music of the common people that has been passed on by memorization or repetition rather than by writing, and has deep roots in its own culture. Folk music is an integral part of community centered cultures with people playing and singing together rather than watching others perform.

In American culture, folk music refers to the music of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, who popularized and encouraged the lyrical style in the 50's and 60's. Folk music can also describe a particular kind of popular music which is based on traditional folk music.

Folk song is usually seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now, past or about to disappear (or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived).

World music is, most generally, all the music in the world.[1] More specifically, the term is currently used to classify the many genres of non-Western music which were previously described as "folk music" or "ethnic music". However, "world music" does not have to mean traditional folk music, it may refer to the indigenous classical forms of various regions of the world, and to modern, cutting edge pop music styles as well.

Music from around the world exerts wide cross-cultural influence as styles naturally influence one another, and in recent years "world music" has also been marketed as a successful genre in itself. Academic study of world music, as well as the musical genres and individual artists with which it has been associated, can be found in such disciplines as anthropology, Folkloristics, Performance Studies and ethnomusicology.