Arts & Culture
folk music
songs printed on a broadside
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Arts & Culture
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folk music, type of traditional and generally rural music that originally was passed down through families and other small social groups. Typically, folk music, like folk literature, lives in oral tradition; it is learned through hearing rather than reading. It is functional in the sense that it is associated with other activities, and it is primarily rural in origin. The usefulness of the concept varies from culture to culture, but it is most convenient as a designation of a type of music of Europe and the Americas. The term folk music and its equivalents in other languages denote many different ...(100 of 6244 words)