folk music

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

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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. Louis Armstrong

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. George Gershwin

... And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. Pete Seeger

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music. John Betjeman

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. Ani DiFranco

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. Bono

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