folk singer

Variant of folk song

folk song definition

folk song

  1. a song made and handed down among the common people: folk songs are usually of anonymous authorship and often have many versions
  2. a song composed in the style of such a traditional song

Etymology: calque of Ger volkslied, loan transl. (by Johann Gottfried von Herder, 1771) of E popular song

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