Usually means: Traditional, cultural music of people.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word folk music:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. folk music: Merriam-Webster
  2. folk music: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. folk music: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. folk music: Collins English Dictionary
  5. folk music: Vocabulary.com
  6. folk-music: Wordnik
  7. folk music: Wiktionary
  8. folk music: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. folk music: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. folk-music, folk music: Dictionary.com
  11. Folk Music (album), Folk music (disambiguation), Folk music: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. folk music: Rhymezone
  13. folk music: FreeDictionary.org
  14. folk music: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. folk-music, folk music: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. folk music: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk-music, folk music: Encyclopedia

(Note: See folk_musics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (folk music)

noun:  Any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function.
noun:  Any contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music, especially a specific genre of originally American popular music that draws on Anglo-American musical forms.

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