Urban Folk

Urban folk may refer to:

  • Folk music from any urban cultural tradition (as opposed to country music)
  • Anti-folk music

Famous quotes containing the words urban and/or folk:

    “Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–62)

    “Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary little creatures—who grow up into ordinary folk like us.”
    —Doris Dyson. quoted in What Is a Baby?, By Richard and Helen Exley.