The 1980s are not known for its extensive catalog of folk music, but amid the big hair and synth-machines exists these three ...

Tap your toes and learn the words to German folk songs this weekend Published: Aug. 28, 2008, 11:28 a.m.

The rediscovery of democratic traditions of folk song in Germany after the Second World War was not just the counter-reaction of singers and academics to the misuse of German folk song by the Nazis.

There are various English-language versions of "O, Christmas Tree," each of which traces its origins to a traditional German folk song that, at least initially, was unrelated to Christmas.