Example sentences for: folkways

How can you use “folkways” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records

  • A book about the extraordinary, if messy, career of the founder of Folkways Records wins polite reviews, but it's no masterpiece of biography.

  • Moe Asch created Folkways and ran it for 38 years, until his death in 1986, releasing 2,200 records, including sides by Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie and artists from all over the globe playing everything from children's music to jazz.

  • His approach to folklore study was that of the established tradition of the times, which examined current customs, traditions, folkways, and folk narratives as survivals of an earlier civilization.

  • Few people born after 1950 had heard of it, despite its remaining in print until Folkways Records dissolved when its owner, Moe Asch, died in the mid-1980s.


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