American folk music can be track back history. Folk songs are considered oral histories that tell stories that often does not appear in history books. Folk music songs range in subject matter from hardship, satire, love songs, work, and relationships, economic and civil rights. Folk literature, was passed down through oral tradition and the music was heard rather than read. The concept of folk music from culture to culture but it is found in Europe and the Americas.

Folk music central traditions are transmitted orally or aurally and is learned through hearing rather than reading of words or music. Folk music associated with activities of work, games, enculturation and folk religion. Folk refers to the broad population of lower social