FOLK MUSIC OF DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS

See a movie of Latin American musicians.

See a movie of Eastern European musicians.

See a movie of African American musicians.

Each group that came to Texas brought their own musical heritage.  They used music to work with and to play by. Some immigrants had "play parties" where they would sing and dance.  They did not call it "dance" because it was against their church.  Many newcomers did not have instruments until later years.  They wanted to have the same instruments they had in their homeland.   Their music was learned in a way very similar to the way that they learned folk tales.   Many songs that we sing today are folk songs.

Click here for the Mexican folk song:
Al Citron

Click here for the Canadian sea song:
Donkey Riding

Click here for the Polynesian canoe song:
Tong

Click here for the Czech folk song:
Czechoslovakian Canon

Click here for the Romanian folk song:
Come to the land

Click here for the German folk song:
All Things Shall Perish

Click here for the African American folk song:
Little Sally Water

Click here for the Irish folk song:
The Whistling Gypsy
(also known as
The Gypsy Rover)

Return to folk life.