folk music
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2.0
- noun
- /foʊk ˈmjuːzɪk/
:
música folclórica
- She enjoys listening to folk music because it tells the stories of the people and their customs.
- American folk music
- Korean folk music
- Appalachian folk music
So the folk music is really just about people and music.
- So the folk music is really just about people and music.
- There was folk music that the there was early Blues that was played on the banjo.
Examples
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The radio station features a program dedicated to folk music from various cultures around the world.
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Instead, I joined the folk music club and learned to sing camp songs and discuss social issues.
Fiction book (1996) -
But if you go way back, you know that all of that folk music from the African American experience goes into the Blues, right?
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America may be said to have many coexisting folk music cultures rather than one shared by everyone.
Academic text (1997) -
Furthermore, Lomax held that folk music was a democratic art that came from local communities, both rural and urban.
Academic text (2013) -
Alan Lomax began collecting examples of folk music tucked away in rural regions during his teenage years.
Academic text (2013) -
Musical styles that arise from such cultures include traditional Appalachian folk music, blues, and spirituals.
Academic text (1995) -
In the mid-20th century, musicologists and folklorists collected Appalachian folk music that might otherwise have been lost.
Academic text (2007) -
During the festival, local artists performed traditional folk music that celebrated the community's heritage.
Synonyms
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Traditional music passed down by people in a community
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3.4
Music from a cultural group that shows its customs and daily life
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3.2
A style of music where people perform traditional songs from a community
Music that uses older local folk styles
A kind of music like old folk, country and blues that sounds simple and honest
How Traditional
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2.0
19
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'traditional music of a community' is directly and compositionally derived from 'folk' (relating to a people or their traditions) + 'music' (organized sound), so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE. This noun-noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern (people/tradition + music) and is therefore immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Folk music comes from a simple idea: folk means ordinary 'people' and music means the songs they sing. These songs are often passed down by ear and tell a group's stories, so folk music today means 'traditional' music that shows a people's life and history.