# folk music

> music meta-genre encompassing traditional folk music, contemporary folk music (evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival), and derivatives of these two branches

**Wikidata**: [Q43343](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43343)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/folk-music

## Summary

Folk music is a music genre[1].


## References

1. [Rate Your Music](https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Folk/)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. BBC Things
4. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
5. BabelNet
6. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)