Uploading Folk Music

[jujimufu]

I found a nice collection of English Folk songs by Olive Dame Campbell (d.1954) and Cecil Sharp (d.1924), which consists of about 390 pages and was published in 1917.

Should we make an effort to have a better organised Folk Music section on IMSLP? At the moment, there are some diverse titles in the "0" alphabetical listing of composers, including "Finnish Folk Music", "Folklore, Costa Rica", and "Folk Songs, German". Is there a way we can normalise the titles, and maybe we can have a special Composer's page, called "Folk Music", under which we could have the various nationalities, or better even further categories, geographical perhaps, so people could navigate between Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Americas and from there, say, to Eastern European, Northern European, Western European, Southern European - because folk musics are highly related geographically and not so much politically. So countries like Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria would have a similar kind of folk music, which would be different to the folk music of Sweden, Norway and Finland (and western Russia), which would be similar in itself.

If this is too much, then maybe we could have a category with countries, and a category with a significantly culturally different geographical areas with their own culture and folk music, such as the folk music of Carelia, or Lapland, of Transylvania etc etc, which do not consist countries in themselves.

We could also draw ideas from how Wikipedia organises folk music.

Any other suggestions, or how this could actually be manifest within the wiki's capabilities and limitations (of which I am mostly ignorant)?

[steltz]

Given how old some of this music is, and that geographical boundaries have changed many times over the centuries, it might be an idea to adapt Davydov's ideas about tags automatically belonging to another category.

For instance, Karelia (BTW, a carelia is a type of snail ) is Finnish now, but if I'm not mistaken, this would be part of the area Sweden ceded to Russia iin the 1300s, and has only been considered "Finnish" since its independence in the early 20th C. The tag Karelia could be attached to all 3 countries. This music will come up under a search of any of four words -- Sweden, Finland, Russia, and Karelia, but its tag would simply be "Karelia".