folk song
noun
: a traditional or composed song typically characterized by stanzaic form, refrain, and simplicity of melody
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There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
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Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
At Del’s birthday party, another folk song was unearthed, this one about a witch dying in 1816.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 31 Jan. 2025
But beyond its on-screen appeal, the Jamaican folk song is ideal for kids who enjoy repetition and call-and-response, two popular characteristics of children’s music, presented here in a format that parents will find catchy, too.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
At Del’s birthday party, another folk song was unearthed, this one about a witch dying in 1816.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 31 Jan. 2025
But beyond its on-screen appeal, the Jamaican folk song is ideal for kids who enjoy repetition and call-and-response, two popular characteristics of children’s music, presented here in a format that parents will find catchy, too.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Folk song.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20song. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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