Jazz Articles about Kiila

Kiila: Silm

by Matthew Wuethrich
May 20, 2004

Critics have applied the term “folk" so liberally to so much modern music that its meaning has been dimmed. Musically, it often describes music based on simple scales, cyclical melodies and ragged, dancing rhythms. Culturally, it describes a tradition, or interpretation of one, specific to an area or people. If this is so, are not most forms of popular music “folk" music? Rock and jazz use cyclical, memorable melodies combined with improvisation to create music that expresses the ideas of ...