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  "name": "American Folk Music",
  "description": "Traces back through the history of European and West African settlement and migration to North America, including parts of northern Mexico and Canada in addition to the United States.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/american-folk-music/",
  "parent": "Traditional Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
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      "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
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      "level": "sub-3",
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      "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
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      "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
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      "description": "Folk of the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-blues/",
      "description": "Various styles of Blues originating in the rural US South, typically relying on expressive vocal delivery and featuring simple, usually acoustic instrumentation.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-blues/",
      "description": "Various styles of Blues originating in the rural US South, typically relying on expressive vocal delivery and featuring simple, usually acoustic instrumentation.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-blues/",
      "description": "Various styles of Blues originating in the rural US South, typically relying on expressive vocal delivery and featuring simple, usually acoustic instrumentation.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Hollers",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-hollers/",
      "description": "Created by African-American slaves working on cotton plantations, featuring expressive vocals to no strict rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Hollers",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-hollers/",
      "description": "Created by African-American slaves working on cotton plantations, featuring expressive vocals to no strict rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Hollers",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-hollers/",
      "description": "Created by African-American slaves working on cotton plantations, featuring expressive vocals to no strict rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fife and Drum Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fife-and-drum-blues/",
      "description": "Rooted in martial Fife and Drum Corps music, originated among Afro-American communities in Mississippi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fife and Drum Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fife-and-drum-blues/",
      "description": "Rooted in martial Fife and Drum Corps music, originated among Afro-American communities in Mississippi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fife and Drum Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fife-and-drum-blues/",
      "description": "Rooted in martial Fife and Drum Corps music, originated among Afro-American communities in Mississippi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ring Shout",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ring-shout/",
      "description": "Ritual practiced by African-Americans in the US South, characterized by shouting, chanting and people dancing in a circle while praying and clapping.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ring Shout",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ring-shout/",
      "description": "Ritual practiced by African-Americans in the US South, characterized by shouting, chanting and people dancing in a circle while praying and clapping.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ring Shout",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ring-shout/",
      "description": "Ritual practiced by African-Americans in the US South, characterized by shouting, chanting and people dancing in a circle while praying and clapping.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Harp Singing",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-harp-singing/",
      "description": "Predominantly 19th-century English hymns with tunes derived from old folk melodies.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Harp Singing",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-harp-singing/",
      "description": "Predominantly 19th-century English hymns with tunes derived from old folk melodies.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Harp Singing",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-harp-singing/",
      "description": "Predominantly 19th-century English hymns with tunes derived from old folk melodies.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spirituals",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spirituals/",
      "description": "Predecessor to Gospel that began as unaccompanied singing by American slaves; shares some of the characteristics of Work Song.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spirituals",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spirituals/",
      "description": "Predecessor to Gospel that began as unaccompanied singing by American slaves; shares some of the characteristics of Work Song.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spirituals",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spirituals/",
      "description": "Predecessor to Gospel that began as unaccompanied singing by American slaves; shares some of the characteristics of Work Song.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Talking Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/talking-blues/",
      "description": "American Folk Music with spoken or nearly spoken vocals; often features dry humor and social commentary.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Talking Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/talking-blues/",
      "description": "American Folk Music with spoken or nearly spoken vocals; often features dry humor and social commentary.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Talking Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/talking-blues/",
      "description": "American Folk Music with spoken or nearly spoken vocals; often features dry humor and social commentary.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Black Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-black-gospel/",
      "description": "Born out of Spirituals in the early 20th century with influence from Southern Gospel and Blues, often featuring passionate or energetic vocal performances, motifs of salvation, and testaments of hardship.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Black Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-black-gospel/",
      "description": "Born out of Spirituals in the early 20th century with influence from Southern Gospel and Blues, often featuring passionate or energetic vocal performances, motifs of salvation, and testaments of hardship.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Black Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-black-gospel/",
      "description": "Born out of Spirituals in the early 20th century with influence from Southern Gospel and Blues, often featuring passionate or energetic vocal performances, motifs of salvation, and testaments of hardship.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Cajun Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-cajun-music/",
      "description": "Earliest and most \"pure\" form of Cajun Music, employing basic rhythms and frequent fiddle double stops.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Cajun Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-cajun-music/",
      "description": "Earliest and most \"pure\" form of Cajun Music, employing basic rhythms and frequent fiddle double stops.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Cajun Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-cajun-music/",
      "description": "Earliest and most \"pure\" form of Cajun Music, employing basic rhythms and frequent fiddle double stops.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-country/",
      "description": "Closely aligned with American Folk Music and Blues roots, from country's inception in Appalachia and the American South until the popularity of Honky Tonk and Country Pop in the 1950s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-country/",
      "description": "Closely aligned with American Folk Music and Blues roots, from country's inception in Appalachia and the American South until the popularity of Honky Tonk and Country Pop in the 1950s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-country/",
      "description": "Closely aligned with American Folk Music and Blues roots, from country's inception in Appalachia and the American South until the popularity of Honky Tonk and Country Pop in the 1950s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    }
  ]
}