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Definition of Folk singer
1. Noun. A singer of folk songs.
Generic synonyms: Singer, Vocaliser, Vocalist, Vocalizer
Specialized synonyms: Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter Seeger, Seeger
Derivative terms: Minstrel
Definition of Folk singer
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of folksinger), someone who sings folk music. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folk Singer
Literary usage of Folk singer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"In art-songs the pauses at the subdivisions of the melody are covered up by the
instrumental accompaniment; but the folk-singer, having no accompaniment, ..."
2. Essays in the Study of Folk-songs by Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco (1886)
"One celebrated poet, and I think but one, has in our own times begun his career
in like manner with the unknown folk-singer. The songs of Sandor Petofi were ..."
3. The Merry-go-round by Carl Van Vechten (1918)
"Here are his words [" English Folk-Song "] : " But, it must be remembered that
the vocal method of the folk-singer is inseparable from the folk-song. ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1876)
"NEW SERIES. with the unknown folk-singer. The songs of Sandor Petöfi were popular
over the breadth of the Hungarian ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
""Ici " in C'est le bon tin qui danse ici can be nowhere else but in old France—le
bon ri« alone proves this. And the Canadian folk-singer, though in a land ..."
6. Yearbook (1916)
"They make use of the same triad music that the folk-singer delights in. Or, to
take a larger piece which is a little farther removed from this first stage ..."
7. The Bookman (1911)
"In a world composed almost wholly of young bachelors, where women and children
are rare and the family does not exist, the folk-singer is either cut off ..."
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