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):
- Commercial folk music didn't explode with the Kingston Trio in 1958.
- 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.
- 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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