FOLK MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does folk music mean? 

• FOLK MUSIC (noun)
  The noun FOLK MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

  Familiarity information: FOLK MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLK MUSIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ethnic music; folk; folk music

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)