folk music

Questions about folk music

What does folk music mean?

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

What is another word for folk music?

Close synonyms include ethnic music, folk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is folk music a common word?

folk music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.