AROUND THE WORLD IN SONG A delightful arrangement of folksongs from 15 different countries including Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, Japan and Israel. (lllmarivt.org)
I especially like a sequence in which a young woman walks through a cemetery at dusk and begins to sing «La Llarona,» a traditional folksong about a mother who is trapped between the living and the dead, doomed to wander the earth until she finds the children she murdered. (sensesofcinema.com)
There it was natural to begin with the history, for while some very early folksongs antedate any written history and the prophecy of Amos was the earliest complete book, an important part of the history found in the Old Testament was written before any other major type of literature emerged. (religion-online.org)