balladeers
Tellers in song
Balladeers are singers or composers of ballads—narrative songs that tell stories, often of love, loss, or adventure.
The term suggests a traditional or folk sensibility, evoking someone who performs with emotional directness: The balladeers of the 1960s folk revival brought old songs to new audiences.
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- bardPoet of epics
- minstrelTraveling performer of songs
- singer-songwriterSelf-composing musical performer
- folk singerTraditional song performer
crooner · chanteuse · serenader · songster · vocalist · griot · jongleur · gleeman
Musically expressive
chorus · melody · rhymes · meter · cadence · lament · love song · story song
Regular common people
- acousticRelating to sound
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
folkways · revivalist · oral tradition · anthology · ethnomusicology · folk revival · Appalachian · Celtic
troubadour
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- bardPoet of epics
- minstrelTraveling performer of songs
- singer-songwriterSelf-composing musical performer
folk singer · crooner · chanteuse · serenader · songster · vocalist · griot · jongleur · gleeman · cantor
lyrical
Musically expressive
refrain · chorus · melody · rhymes · meter · cadence · lament · love song · story song · plaintive
folk
Regular common people
- acousticRelating to sound
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
heritage · folkways · revivalist · oral tradition · anthology · ethnomusicology · folk revival · Appalachian · Celtic · broadside
narrative
Account of events
epic · chronicle · lore · tragedy · romance · heroic · mythic · historical · dramatic · yarn
- songwritersBob Dylan, songwriter, lyricists, composer, lyricist
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- performersactor, dancer, actress, singer, musician
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- Asian popC-pop, Cantopop, Erik, Isaac, Jack
balladeerspunk rockers
Aggressive subgenre's devotees
rockers · screamers · shredders · shouters · headbangers