Folk music · Music genre · YYNN

Folk music

Y 96%

38th percentile in Music

Music genre

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Y 100%

Gordon Lightfoot

Canadian singer-songwriter (1938–2023)

Chilean folk music group

Talkin' 'bout a Revolution

1988 single by Tracy Chapman

Elektra Records

American record label

Carly Rae Jepsen

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1985)

Flight of the Conchords

New Zealand musical comedy duo

American singer and songwriter (born 1958)

Paul Williams (songwriter)

American composer, singer, songwriter, recovery advocate and actor (born 1940)

American actress

American musician and actor (born 1964)

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3

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Y 85%

Traditional folk music

local or regional traditional music that was originally produced in performance and transmitted in community conditions, as well as music written stylistically and/or ideologically within these traditions

Contemporary folk music

Genre of popular music centered around Anglophonic folk revivals

popular folk music

group of genres comprising contemporary forms and developments of local traditional folk music, classified separately in individual countries, which exist independently from the mostly acoustic and lyrical contemporary folk music (Q106298881)

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N? 33%

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013 film by Joel and Ethan Coen

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Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played...

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Traditional folk music

Contemporary folk music

popular folk music

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