Folk

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Folk means traditional music, the music of the people. Going back hundreds or thousands of years, the music that people played in certain locations was their 'folk' music. So, for example, Irish folk was the music that Irish people naturally started playing among themselves many generations before the modern recorded music industry was born. Irish folk, along with Scottish folk, Appalachian folk and other Western folks, often involve stringed instruments (like banjos or guitars) and storytelling songs. African folk music tends to prioritize dancing over storytelling, and is therefore often thought of as 'dance' or 'world' rather than folk - but it is, basically, the music of those people. The Blues is a kind of folk music which emerged from the black people of the Southern US States.

Nowadays, folk has become a lazy term used to indicate the presence of an acoustic guitar in a song.
Yusuf Islam

Yusuf Islam

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