Mass communication allowed the development of an ability for composition with a variety of tastes and skills. This ultimately brought a blending of elements. Folk music is important to community life. It is music that usually thrives outside of elite or educational institutions. It provides creative means of exploring, expressing and communicating values with one another and with the outside world.
Folk music is the music an ethnic community uses to identify itself.
Nearly all of humanity shares folk music. Folk songs are communal compositions. They are expressions of the culture that produces them. A community helps support one another by learning, growing and celebrating the beauty surrounding as well as within. Music offers inspiration.