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FOLK MUSIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Synonyms:
ethnic music; folk; folk music
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("folk music" is a kind of...):
popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folk music"):
folk ballad; folk song; folksong (a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture)
schottische (music performed for dancing the schottische)
C and W; country and western; country music (a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments)
gospel; gospel singing (folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul))
square-dance music (music performed for square dancing)
