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Although the term is usually only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre. For example, the Grammy Award previously used the terms "traditional music" and "traditional folk" for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. [15] Folk music may include most indigenous music. [5]
At its core, folk music is how people have shared their stories through time that have survived long enough to be sung generations later. We don’t limit folk to any one genre, culture, or group of instruments.
Folk music is a type of traditional and generally rural music that originally was passed down through families and other small social groups. Typically, folk music, like folk literature, lives in oral tradition; it is learned through hearing rather than reading.
2 folk or folks plural : a certain kind, class, or group of people old folks just plain folk country folk
Essentially, folk music is a music genre that includes both traditional folk music (many of it dating back centuries) and contemporary folk music, which evolved during what was called the ‘folk revival’ of the mid 20 th century.
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