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"folk" Definitions
  1. (of art, culture, etc.) traditional and typical of the ordinary people of a country or community
  2. based on the beliefs of ordinary people
"folk" Synonyms
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Black folk are writing and running shows about black folk.
Sonically it's basically a folk song; a hip-hop, folk, psychedelic record.
I'm one of the folk, and I'm writing about what us folk feel.
To many folk purists, the trio was selling a watered-down mix of folk and pop that commercialized the authentic folk music of countless unknown Appalachian pickers.
The only vulnerability the folk hero has is an exposed betrayal of the folk.
It is the American Folk Art Museum, not the Museum of American Folk Art.
And as a result, the good news is, white folk and straight folk and all those fierce women folk are mad now, and now something might get done!
My collection was recognized by the American Folk Art Museum as modern-day folk art.
Then check out Rabu, a midnight black folk duo makes folk music for Javanese funerals.
Folk remedies and cosmetics: Folk remedies for ailments including rashes, fevers and upset stomachs may contain lead.
In her own music, Rachel strays between traditional folk sounds and more modern indie folk/rock ones.
There are so many elements in the folk world, or in folk lore or legend and magic.
"Eman Dilo," a folk tune by the Kurdish folk singer, Mihemed Sexo, was up on the screen.
"This TV show allows me to take my dreams about unlikable jewish folk, queer folk, trans folk, and make them the heroes," Soloway, 50, said while accepting her trophy for the Amazon series.
"When I'm Gone" was originally recorded by the Carter Family, a folk trio that did much to popularize folk music in the 1930s, and contributed much to the folk revival of the 1960s.
"The show could have been trash if behind the scenes there were no trans folk, queer folk, or gender non-conforming [folk] that were involved in the making —in scripts but also directing," Mock said.
It was folk noir but without the pagan streak, and also indie folk, but not the banal, mainstream kind.
The production reaches its high point in two late first-act numbers, in which shoe folk meet show folk.
He soon had bookings at Gerde's Folk City and the Gaslight Cafe and charmed the more seasoned folk singers.
The songs themselves are less alien, carrying the distorted echoes of other songs that makes folk music folk music.
This is in part because richer folk tend to save their windfall, in contrast to poorer folk, who spend it.
The Newport Folk Festival, A retrospective, featuring never-before-seen excerpts from the treasure trove of folk and roots music.
"[The] freefall was particularly bad for poor folk and particularly bad for African-American and Hispanic poor folk," he said.
Over time, others, including Mr. Dylan and Ms. Baez, have given the group more credit for popularizing folk music and for serving as a bridge to the more adventurous folk, folk-rock and rock of the 1960s.
To say that folk music is different from whatever we wanna call pop music—it's all folk music in the end.
The band was the first bluegrass group to play the Newport Folk Festival, in 1959, and headlined folk festivals for decades.
The first book they illustrated, the "Fireside Book of Folk Songs" (1947), was a hit, catching the emerging folk-music wave.
Its heavy doses of poetry and folk music recalled the folk revival and beat scene of the 1950s and early '60s.
Folk Art The poems in "Song" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, who died last October, seem to spring from cracked folk tales.
They proved such a success that the restaurant's name was changed to Gerdes Folk City and eventually simply to Folk City.
This TV show allows me to take my dreams about unlikable Jewish people, queer folk, trans folk, and make them the heroes.
"Folk horror postulates, celebrates, and explores all the distinctly seamy, dreadful, and macabre elements of the folk phenomenon," explained John Revill, a folk horror fan who was introduced to the subgenre while studying film history at Manchester University in England.
Most of the people that I know that I like that are doing folk music, like Alasdair Roberts, they are doing modern folk.
I can't explain it with folk music because in folk music they only talk about love but here is no love, only war.
Hollywood needs to pull an Ed Skriene, and know when roles for the non-white folk ought to stay with non-white folk.
If the neoclassicists are like the folk revivalists who collected old acoustic 78s, he is Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Taking inspiration from the dabke, an Arabic folk dance, the production is more than a folk dance, both to its credit and its detriment.
Before Beeley teamed up with his wife to transport frozen cryogenics across the country, he made folk music; deeply felt, little heard, folk music.
Hemphill, she learned, had been the first curator of the Museum of American Folk Art (now the American Folk Art Museum) in New York.
According to Kate Horigan, assistant professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University, when folk traditions are appropriated, discrete belief systems are often lumped together.
The song isn't so much a folk roots cover of jazz, as it is a demonstration that Holiday was always a folk singer to begin with.
FAMILIES AND FOLK ART: 'ASSEMBLAGE AND ABSTRACTION' Folk artists have often had something in common with children: They make art from whatever they have at hand.
"I grew up in that community of musicians and music and folk singers like Woody Guthrie, that folk tale is very romantic to me," she says.
His first professional work came with the folk singer Brother John Sellers, who at the time was the M.C. at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village.
"While my springboard to the work has been Mexican folk arts, I have also taken elements from various folk art forms throughout the world," Martinez tells Creators.
And the internet is a big place, so if you're in the boonies surrounded by white folk (most media is white folk) get online and DM people!
George Gershwin called "Porgy and Bess" a "folk opera," which placed him in a long line of composers who drew inspiration from folk themes, real or imagined.
That's part of what calls A Serious Man's made-up Yiddish folk tale to mind — every segment of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs feels like a folk tale.
The sky that the dancers gaze at feels European, inflected by the Polish folk dance in the choreography, which picks up the folk elements in a Chopin score.
He was best known as a member of Planxty, an acclaimed Irish folk band, formed in 1972, that was influential in the Irish folk revival of that period.
Yet she has done what we black folk often demand white folk do: Take responsibility for your actions and a legacy of hate that is often silently transmitted.
FOLK HERO & FUNNY GUY A flailing comedian (Alex Karpovsky) tries to regain his mojo by going on tour with an old friend, a folk-rock musician (Wyatt Russell).
The Jamaican visionary John Dunkley (1891-1947) is the latest artist to decimate the distinctions between self-taught and trained, outsider and insider and folk and not folk.
The photos I have of those times show scenes from Belgrade techno-rave club Industrija, from turbo-folk parties on riverboats and folk dances in Belgrade park Kalemegdan.
He appeared on seven albums with the Ian Campbell Folk Group in the early 1960s and in 1965 began recording with Martin Carthy, a leader of Britain's folk revival.
That's the subject of "Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art From the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection," a captivating exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum.
It's cool because people who would not necessarily be into folk are like 'Oh this is really cool' and so it draws in a bigger crowd, while still being folk.
J.P. Olivia Chaney, a folk-rooted yet forward-looking English singer, and the Portland folk-rock band the Decemberists have collaborated as Offa Rex on an album due July 14.
Living in Syracuse in the 1970s, her mother helped start the Black Folk Art Gallery, now called the Community Folk Art Center, and became close with a coterie of artists.
Occasionally I will play in Irish folk sessions, just in pubs with small groups of people, and it's the Irish music or English folk songs that I like, the traditional reels.
Grainger began collecting and recording English folk music, and later arranging it; he is best known for his arrangement of the folk tune "Country Gardens" (though he quickly tired of it).
The American Folk Art Museum's (AFAM) Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection examines this often hidden history through its arcane artifacts.
Country folk love their music – and the Chicago Cubs.
PIERMONT Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan, folk and blues. Jan.
The show fills the airtime with noise, avant jazz, psych jazz, psych rock, psych folk, folk, solo acoustic guitar, new age, and of course, the occasional jam from Conklin's beloved Grateful Dead.
There is Post-black Folk Art Smash of a green felt figure with his middle fingers raised in the air, and the message, "Folk art Hulk smash white supremacy," in purple ink.
Last week, I gave a speech at the Women's March and I talked about how our liberation is directly linked to the liberation of undocumented immigrants, of disabled folk, of trans folk.
Ms. Jonas often bases her pieces on myths, rituals, poems, folk songs, and texts from around the world — a 503th-century Icelandic folk epic, a 1961 American poem about Helen of Troy.
She graduated cum laude from Elon University in Elon, N.C. She is on the board of Folk Alliance International in Kansas City, Mo., which promotes the history and future of folk music.
Rogers began recording in the 1950s, first as a background member of various jazz and folk ensembles and then, in the 1960s, as a member of the folk-rock-country band First Edition.
Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection continues at the American Folk Art Museum (2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan) through May 8.
The New South will be as good for black folk as the old, Haygood declared, as new white Southerners would continue to civilize inferior black folk in their nicely segregated free-labor society.
Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection continues at the American Folk Art Museum (2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan) through May 8.
Now for us plain folk ... Meghan wins the hat contest.
Finally, what do you think of the phrase 'homespun folk'?
Again, I don't know why folk Stan and defend her.
The prevailing wisdom was that you can't trust city folk.
Folk added, however, that she can't speak for anyone else.
Young folk are dislodging their elders from the juiciest jobs.
Its adherents see themselves as honest folk fighting corrupt cosmopolitans.
The purchasing power of ordinary folk has fallen far more.
And it's why folk music continues to connect with people.
Its seeds are used in folk medicine to relieve ulcers.
However, the Free Folk have something to show him first.
Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis is a stunning example.
More important, both cities are stuffed with highly skilled folk.
There was a real folk and punk feel to it.
Her unique mix of folk and danceable pop is infectious.
But it struggles to attract and keep highly educated folk.
MORRISTOWN Valentine's Day Extravaganza, performance by Folk Project members. Feb.
WHITE PLAINS Charlie King and the Peace Poets, folk. Feb.
Everybody Wants A Piece — Joe Louis Walker Best Folk Album
Some folk nevertheless think this could be worth a go.
Hundreds of ordinary folk, including children, are also in jail.
Traditional folk dancers roll past on a bed of tulips.
Her grave exists as something of a folk monument today.
Those future folk sure knew how to make an entrance.
Dating is still pretty hard for us common folk, too.
Su música giró hacia el folk rock y la psicodelia.
Ordinary folk in the novel scrape about to avoid destitution.
Folk religion shaped her childhood; elite education moulded her career.
No other oral folk art commands this kind of audience.
I'm just down to play folk music for the people.
Beekeepers, caring folk at heart obviously, want to avoid this.
To young trans folk: Remember this is your school too.
Suddenly you could almost picture Conor McGregor as Folk Hero.
Others are young folk with no experience of party politics.
Stylistically I would call it a dreamy, mystical folk record.
Others took to singing romantic songs, especially Russian folk songs.
MALVERNE Crossroads Folk Festival, with Tom Chapin and other acts.
They thought he was making fun of physically diminutive folk.
Tax relief should go to folk who really need it.
WOODSTOCK Marc Black Band with Warren Bernhardt, rock and folk.
"Gaelic Storm," traditional Irish music mixed with rock and folk.
HUDSON Okkervil River with Bird of Youth, folk and rock.
Be warned — there are a surprising number of folk songs.
Her voice is attuned to the populist element of folk.
But we found Appenzell and its folk music festival endearing.
Sean Rowe, folk, with special guests the Sea the Sea.
KATONAH The Small Glories with Joe Crookston, roots and folk.
Folk and soul are actually my first two musical crushes.
Only in the Arabic folk songs did love shyly appear.
Even folk music played a key role in Diamond's development.
Flowers' imagery primarily features idyllic farms and charming British folk.
You be xenophobic and be an ally for trans folk.
Believe trans folk when they say they have been targeted.
Intimacy can be even more complicated for some trans folk.
This connection also contributed to their popularity among common folk.
The Eyes of My Mother feels like a folk tale.
Luckily, you'd be hard pressed to find more industrious folk.
Others perform folk songs from their country in traditional dress.
Outdoorsy folk can be a fussy bunch, and rightfully so.
Dylan's highly personalized approach toward folk song is still evolving.
Some of the original folk songs have dramatic, violent texts.
They recorded the folk tales they heard with minimal edits.
"I've always made my own folk dances," Mr. Wilson said.
Back in the 80s, only the rich folk had generators.
But he sees modern Democrats as detached from common folk.
Racism between colored and black folk is not unheard of.
While folk music was blowing up, soul music was too.
"Sounds like a 50s folk band," wrote one Twitter user.
Rich folk seeking "lifestyle managers" are likely to want Arabic.
The free folk believe the man should steal the woman.
In Mexico, he became a folk hero to the masses.
That is why they promote folk religion and "cultural confidence".
What was your interest in joining the folk art museum?
But polls show Quist, a local folk musician, gaining ground.
And let's face it, fashion folk really like to gossip.
Hence the folk saying: it's the strong swimmers who drown.
" Jets kicker Nick Folk agreed: "You can't change your mechanics.
Which turns a supervillain into a kind of folk hero.
Ruthie Davis x Frozen 2 Folk Art Heels, $598, ruthiedavis.
The chorus even does an endearing little Japanese folk dance.
I typically listen to rock with some folk thrown in.
To him, folk music glittered like a mound of gold.
"I'll go anywhere for a folk song," he said jokingly.
For me, this folk knowledge brought both comfort and distress.

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