folk rock

folk rock
a style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock-'n'-roll beat, and at its height of popularity in the late 1960s.
Also, folk-rock.
[1965-70; FOLK + ROCK2]

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folk rock noun
A form of popular music which adapts folk melodies to the rhythm of rock music
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Main Entry: ↑folk

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folk rock,
a type of rock'n'roll music with elements of folk-song melody and lyrics.

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n. popular music resembling or derived from folk music but incorporating the stronger beat of rock music and using electric instruments

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ˌfolk ˈrock 8 [folk rock] noun uncountable
a style of music that combines elements of ↑folk music and rock
 
Culture:
In folk rock groups with electric instruments perform traditional folk songs with a strong beat, sometimes also using traditional instruments such as flutes and violins. Folk rock was popular in Britain and America in the 1960s and 1970s. Many folk-rock songs by singers such as Bob Dylan contained social and political comments about life in that period, such as protests against the ↑Vietnam War. Popular folk-rock groups in Britain have included Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and Pentangle.
See also ↑folk music
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