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:

    “The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation’s culture and one of the by- products of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.”
    —Martin Carthy (b. 1941)