Mayenna Plastow-Smed's music is focused souly on guitar based songs. She describs her genre as Indie Folk with certain aspects of pop.
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50's, 60's and early 70's. A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Beck and Elliott Smith.
Artists that she aspires to are the likes of "Ellie Goulding", "Mumford And Sons.", "KT Tunstall" and many other artists. Often with folk music, the acoustic guitar instrument is often a symbol of the genre. The majority of folk video's will feature a soul performance based on the artist. The Modern concept of adding additional voice overlays, sythesisers.
The roots of the genre was introduced through folk music from diffrent cultures. In which it is often thought that the genre originated with black settlers in America, bringing there cultur to the Americans. This concept of music was then adapted into many diffrent genres including Jazz and of course Folk. Which in later time has developed into a popular genre.
The final paragraph of this post is woolly to say the least!!!! You need to research the roots of European folk music which goes back to pre history when folk lore or folk music was a way in which stories were told by the peasants/working clasess whilst they laboured in the fields, weaving or milling. Folk songs can be about love, heroic deeds, disasters, can be sung a lullabies or as protest songs about working conditions, the latter form popularised by USA artists like Woodie Guthrie who inspired Bob Dylan. This style of political folk music was utilised to great effect in the Vietnam War protest songs of the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite a heavy job for you to do thus I'd strongly suggest you research similar female artists to your artist and their inspiration.