musical heritage
Passed-down sonic traditions
Musical heritage is the musical traditions, styles, and practices passed down through generations within a culture, region, or family.
It encompasses folk songs, instruments, performance techniques, and the cultural contexts that give them meaning: The festival celebrates Appalachian musical heritage.
Communities often work to preserve musical heritage against the homogenizing forces of mass media.
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- sacred songsDevotional musical compositions
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- call and responseAlternating vocal pattern
tradition · Spirituals · old songs · Medieval · living history · rhythm · cultural preservation · melody · harmony · percussion · folklore · ancestors · homeland · fiddle · oral · handed down · passing down · field recordings
- folk musicfolk, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad, folk singers
- Georgian musicsacred chants, religious chants, traditional chants, three-part harmony
- music culturefan culture, festival culture, club culture, fandom, fandoms
- African MusicAfrobeat, highlife, afrobeat, Afro-pop, African rhythms
- African tribesAshanti, Berber, Fulani, Igbo, Bantu
- Bulgarian musictambura, traditional instruments