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Definition of Folk music
1. Noun. The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community.
Specialized synonyms: Folk Ballad, Folk Song, Folksong, Schottische, C And W, Country And Western, Country Music, Gospel, Gospel Singing, Square-dance Music
Generic synonyms: Popular Music, Popular Music Genre
Definition of Folk music
1. Noun. any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region; often not recorded, but passed down orally ¹
2. Noun. contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folk Music
Literary usage of Folk music
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)
"FOLK-MUSIC is, of course, merely one of the numerous branches of Folk-lore.
It is, however, a very large and important one, so important indeed that it has ..."
2. Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures Delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell (1912)
"folk music may be likened to a twig which has fallen into a salt mine, ...
Therefore folk music proper must be separated from what may be called barbaric ..."
3. The Evolution of the Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1906)
"CHAPTER III FOLK-MUSIC THE basis of all music and the very first steps in the
... True folk- music begins a step higher, when these fragments of tune, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"In the case of virtually all European folk-music, there has been an unconscious
... The folk-music of central and western Europe uses the scales of Europe's ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Owing to this close adaptation of the music to the words, the mediaeval folk-music
is indeed more artistic than the art-music of the ecclesiastical ..."
6. A Short History of the American Negro by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1919)
"Folk-Lore and Folk-Music.—In the life and history of the Negro people there ...
Important as is Negro folklore, however, the folk-music of the race is still ..."
7. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
"FOLK-MUSIC. Of indigenous folk-music the moat unmistakable case in America ia
that of the Indiana. Somewhat less clear is that of the Negroes, ..."
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