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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
Stephen Mangan

Meaning of "folk singer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOLK SINGER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOLK SINGER

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Folk singer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOLK SINGER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

folk singer

Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time. Starting in the mid-20th century a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms.

Definition of folk singer in the English dictionary

The definition of folk singer in the dictionary is a person who sings folk songs or other songs in the folk idiom.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOLK SINGER

folk
folk art
folk dance
folk dancing
folk etymology
folk hero
folk medicine
folk memory
folk music
folk singing
folk song
folk story
folk tale
folk weave
folk wisdom
folk-dance
folk-rock
Folkestone
Folketing
folkie

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOLK SINGER

bringer
dinger
finger
ginger
Grainger
gunslinger
harbinger
humdinger
hunger
Kissinger
lead singer
linger
middle finger
ringer
singer
slinger
springer
stinger
stringer
swinger
winger

Synonyms and antonyms of folk singer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «folk singer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOLK SINGER

Find out the translation of folk singer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of folk singer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «folk singer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

民谣歌手
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cantante de folk
570 millions of speakers

English

folk singer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लोक गायक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المغني الشعبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фолк-певица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cantor folk
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লোক গায়ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chanteur folk
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyanyi rakyat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Folk-Sängerin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フォークシンガー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포크 가수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penyanyi rakyat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ca sĩ dân gian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நாட்டுப்புற பாடகர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोकसाहित्याचा गायक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Halk şarkıcısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cantante folk
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

piosenkarka folk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фолк - співачка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cântăreț folk
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λαϊκή τραγουδίστρια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

folk sanger
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

folksångare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

visesanger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of folk singer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOLK SINGER»

The term «folk singer» is regularly used and occupies the 76.949 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOLK SINGER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about folk singer

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10 QUOTES WITH «FOLK SINGER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word folk singer.
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Joan Baez
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
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Skylar Grey
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.
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Patty Griffin
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.
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Doug Henning
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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Ray LaMontagne
I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
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Stephen Mangan
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
7
Roger McGuinn
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
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Langhorne Slim
If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Sissy Spacek
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.
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Jeannette Walls
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOLK SINGER»

Discover the use of folk singer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to folk singer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Folk Music in the United States: An Introduction
In the folk culture the songs have a function beyond aesthetic enjoyment, but in the city this function may be lost, and the folk singer must compete with Beethoven and Hoagy Carmichael for the favors of an audience. It is a sophisticated ...
Bruno Nettl, Helen Myers, 1976
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Folk
Gibson met another folk singer in Chicago, Bob Camp (later HAMILTON CAMP), and the two became a popular duo through the early 1960s; their At the Gate of Horn live album from 1961 was a best seller. At that point Grossman tried to ...
Richard Carlin, Ronald Cohen, 2005
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Folk Singer for the FBI: The Phil Ochs FBI File
Despite the hundreds of pages in his FBI file, Ochs never committed a federal crime. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976. This volume contains commentary and the complete FBI file.
Eric Blair, 2009
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Discovering Folk Music
It included such cuts as Bob Dylan's “Blowin' in the Wind,” Pete Seeger's “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” Lead Belly's “Cotton Fields,” and Kilgore's “The Folk Singer,” mentioned above. “Turn Around,” composed by Malvina Reynolds, ...
Stephanie P. Ledgin, 2010
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Billboard
Group; Gordon Lightfoot, Male Vocalist; Debbie Lori Kaye; Female Vocalist; Tom Northcott, Most Promising Male Vocalist; Colleen Peterson, Most Promising Female Vocalist; 3's A Crowd, Folk Group; Leonard Cohen, Folk Singer; "Half Past ...
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Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills: Supplement
Songs of the Great American West. New York: Macmillan. 1967. Silber 1973a * Irwin Silber. Songs of Independence. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books . 1973. Silber 1973b Irwin Silber: Fred Silber. Folk- singer's Wordbook. New York:  ...
Norman Cazden, Herbert Haufrecht, Norman Studer, 1982
7
Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
Individually, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger had defined what it meant to be a professional folk singer. Lomax, Guthrie, Seeger, and the others re-defined the whole idea of folk singer. Before them folk singers were anonymous people who  ...
Lawrence J. Epstein, 2010
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"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other ...
Transcription from phonograph recording versus dictation direct from folk singer, player or intermediary It is becoming increasingly recognized2 that transcription from phonograph recording, as compared with dictation direct from folk singer or  ...
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larry Polansky, Judith Tick, 2001
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The British Folk Revival: 1944–2002
This also means that for some folkies, the folk singer or instrumentalist has to be rather dispassionate, maintaining a certain non-emotional style, perhaps even a ' distance' from the music being performed. This distance is then expected to ...
Dr Michael Brocken, 2013
10
Boys' Life
One thing folk singers share is the wanderlust. They wander thousands of miles gathering new songs and experiences. One folk singer was a hobo before he became the best-loved poet of our time. His name was Carl Sandburg, and he loved ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOLK SINGER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term folk singer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hong Kong audience joins Chyi Yu in 'campus folk songs' | South …
Few performers can move a full-house audience to sing and clap the way Taiwan's legendary folk singer Chyi Yu did on Friday. She got the ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
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Honouring services: Three roads named after writers, folk singer
Service road (south) of Sector G-9 has been named after folk singer Muhammad Tufail Niazi, service road (east) of Sector G-7 after writer ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
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Von Trapp singer to perform at Culpeper State Theatre
A granddaughter of the legendary Maria and Baron Von Trapp upon which "The Sound of Music" was based, the Vermont folk singer will take ... «The Daily Progress, Jul 15»
4
Folk musicians nationwide write one song to demand change in …
So Mulvey did the only thing that feels right to a folk singer at a time like that. He grabbed a pen and started scribbling a song called “Take ... «Charleston Scene, Jul 15»
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Packie Byrne, folk singer - obituary
Packie Byrne, who has died aged 98, was, variously, a farmer, labourer, door-to-door salesman, steeplejack, smuggler, actor, author and circus ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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In memoriam : Anniversary of folk singer Mai Bhagi
ISLAMABAD: The death anniversary of legendary folk singer Mai Bhagi was observed on Tuesday as her fans remembered her contributions in ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
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Folk Singer Mai Bhagi's death anniversary observed
ISLAMABAD: The death anniversary of legendary folk singer Mai Bhagi was observed on Tuesday as her fans remembered her contributions in ... «Business Recorder, Jul 15»
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Nakaya Shares Poetic Video For "Dear Skin"
It's the second single off of her debut EP, Out of Breath, and finds the alternative folk singer using her sensual, streamlined voice to dedicate a ... «The FADER, Jul 15»
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Punjab govt to bear folk singer Ranjeet Kaur's treatment expenses
Folk singer Ranjeet Kaur has been admitted at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital due to severe infection in her gall bladder. JS Grewal/HT ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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Video: Folk singer writes "Harperman" to rally Canadians to dump …
That's because the Ottawa folk singer who wrote "Harperman", Tony Turner, has issued a challenge to people across Canada to make their ... «Straight.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Folk singer [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/folk-singer>. May 2024 ».
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