A chord deviating from the conventions of Western tonal music elicits an early right anterior negativity (ERAN) in inferofrontal brain regions. Here, we tested whether the ERAN is modulated by expertise in more than one music culture, as typical of folk musicians. Finnish folk musicians and nonmusicians participated in electroencephalography recordings. The cadences consisted of seven chords. I...

Even though folk songs have been passed down mainly by oral tradition, most musicologists study the relation between folk songs on the basis of score-based transcriptions. Due to the complexity of audio recordings, once having the transcriptions, the original recorded tunes are often no longer studied in the actual folk song research though they still may contain valuable information. In this p...

We describe a computational method derived from self organizing mapping and multidimensional scaling algorithms for automatic classification and visual clustering of large vector databases. Testing the method on a large corpus of folksongs we have found that the performance of the classification and topological clustering was significantly improved compared to current techniques. Applying the m...

Folk music forms in India are rich and diverse, varying from region to region across the Indian landscape. The recent explosion of new media technologies (e.g. DVDs, CDs, mobile phones) in both rural and urban India is changing how oral folk music is being performed, produced, distributed, and shared. To further understand this impact, we conducted an extended field study across four field site...

BACKGROUND Folk remedy use is universal, occurring in all cultures. Folk remedies have been and still are relied on in the black community. In this study, folk remedies refer to herbs, over-the-counter medications, and items traditionally used for cooking that are used to treat a variety of ailments. OBJECTIVE To identify folk remedies used to treat fever, colic, and teething among black chil...

There are two types of literature that have appeared in Tamil language. They written texts. Unwritten folklore.i.e. folk literature. Attilakyas divided into several categories according to the period such as Sangam literature, Maruviya medieval devotional modern historical small barilyakya from early period. In this way, it can be known through many studies there elements folklore This article ...