Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.

Ilmatar gave birth to the bard who sang the Finnish landscape into being in the Kalevala (the Finnish national epic). In Ilmatar's Inspirations, Tina K. Ramnari

Accompaniment for guitar, piano/organ, flute, and bass.

American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries