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music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition; music by known composers that has become part of the folk tradition of a country or region

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  • In the work of preserving the knowledge of this folk-music
  • Bikel, Seeger, and Dylan are the real folk-music legends. —
  • The song and the mystery of the singer become a folk-music legend.
  • Scotland and Ireland and Wales, and smuggles English folk-music into an appendix.
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