Category talk:Traditional music

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Traditional music = Traditional folk music = Folk music[edit]

Traditional music = Traditional folk music = Folk music. Or am I mistaken? See Category talk:Traditional folk music and interwiki --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 10:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

People don't know. I saw a post an another website by a guy who organized several folk music events for 60 years and he doesn't know the difference. But I found this answer, which might be the best source on that problem: "Traditional music is something that's created and shared in a community, not by individuals. The songs "belong" to everyone and are made by amateurs, without being written down or recorded. Instead traditional music is passed from one person to another by listening and remembering. It's music that is closely connected to the lives of the people who make it and it almost never written to make money.

Folk music is a commercial form of music that is inspired by traditional music. It is music that has been taken out of the community that "owns" it and presented to a new audience. It doesn't reflect the lives of the people in the new audience. It is a form of entertainment; the audience pays, and the performers get paid." CN1 (talk) 01:26, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]