folk music Meaning of "folk music"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

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Usage(s):

  1. Commercial folk music didn't explode with the Kingston Trio in 1958.
  2. For pop consumers in the late '50s, folk music was the Kingston Trio, with their frat-boy lan and their repertoire purloined from Seeger and other traditionalists.
  3. It restores a personal, lyric dimension to folk music, cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long.
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