Volksmusik is a style of traditional music often accompanied by one or especially two singers, which is most popular amongst older people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It tends to be dialect-heavy and invokes local and regional lifestyles and traditions, particularly dances. Alpine musical instruments, such as Alpenhorns, Zithers, acoustic guitars, violas and harmonicas are heavily featured. Yodeling is also common. It features strongly in peak-time television broadcasts on a number of German television channels including ARD and ZDF, but is not often featured on private TV channels because of the younger target audience (the advertising industry's relevant group of ages up to 49 years) of these channels. Volksmusik had influence on Flower Power songs during the 70s. Modern Volksmusik is often mingled with Schlager Music is conceptual time expressed in the structures of tones and silence. ... LeAnn Rimes singing in concert A singer is a type of musician who uses his or her voice to produce music. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... D Dießner alphorn players Alpenhorn or alphorn, a wind instrument, consisting of a natural wooden horn of conical bore, having a cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain livers in Switzerland and elsewhere. ... A Musima Guitar Zither 45 strings with 21 melody, 24 chords The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music. ... The classical guitar typically has nylon strings. ... Alternate uses: Viola (disambiguation) The viola is a stringed musical instrument which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the violin and the lower lines played by the cello and double bass. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, French harp, tin sandwich, blues harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over... Yodeling (or yodelling) is a form of singing that involves rapidly switching from the chest voice to the head voice making a high-low-high-low sound. ... The principal German public national TV channel. ... Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), loosely translated to Second German Television Service, is a public service German language television network based in Mainz. ... Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ... Schlager (German Schlager, literally a hit) is a style of popular music that is prevalent in northern Europe, in particular Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia, but also to a lesser extent in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. ...

See also

• Music of Germany
• Austrian folk dancing

Forms of German-language music include Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), Krautrock, Hamburger Schule, Volksmusik, German hip hop, Schlager and multiple varieties of folk music. ... Austrian folk dancing (see Austria) is mostly associated with Schuhplattler, Landler, Polka or Waltz. ...

External links

• Radio Melodie - one major source of German Volksmusik (online-stream)
• Radio Herz: Radio station from Toronto playing Volksmusik 24 hours a day via the internet
• Radio VHR- Schlager and Volksmusik - Online-Radio (Broadband)
• Schlager/Volksmusik - various online-streams