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Definition of 'folk music'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) folk music
music, usu. of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition.

2. folk music
music by known composers that has become part of the folk tradition of a country or region.

Etymology: (1885–90)

Definition of 'folk music'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) folk music, ethnic music, folk
the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

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