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Folger, Henry Clay 1857-1930 , folk / fōk/ (also folks) • pl. n. 1. inf. people in general: some folk will do anything for money an old folks' home. ∎ a specified group of people:… Folk Song , folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in rec… Folk Music , Before the twentieth century, a dichotomy prevailed between cultivated music, by educated, formally trained musicians and composers, and folk music,… Invention , INVENTION
Invention (from the Latin invenire, to find or to discover) in a broad sense refers to any novel idea or the process of its creation. In th… John Henry , A towering, legendary American working-class folk heroes, John Henry represents not only the nineteenth-century struggle of the human spirit against… Ballad , ballad, in literature, short, narrative poem usually relating a single, dramatic event. Two forms of the ballad are often distinguished—the folk ball…
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