Folk or Folks may refer to:
Sociology
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Nation
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those ...
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People
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of pr ...
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Folklore
Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging ...
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Folk art
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative art, decorative. The makers of folk art a ...
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Folk dance
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Folk hero
A folk hero or national hero is a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; an ...
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...
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Folk metal
Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for exampl ...
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Folk punk
Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock. It was popularized in the early 1980s by the Pogues in England, and by Violent Femmes in the United States. Folk punk achieved some mainstream success in ...
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival. Performers suc ...
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Folk religion
In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, popular religion, traditional religion or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized re ...
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Folk taxonomy
A folk taxonomy is a vernacular naming system, as distinct from scientific taxonomy. Folk biological classification is the way people traditionally describe and organize their natural surroundings/the world around them, typically making generou ...
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Folk Plus
Folk + or Folk Plus is a music channel that broadcasts Albanian folklore music of the Albanian-speaking regions.http://www.21worldtv.com/21world/index.php?Itemid=130&catid=35%3Aiptv-sllajd&id=80%3Afolk-&option=com_content&view=article It broadc ...
or Folk +, an Albanian folk music channel
* Folks (band), a Japanese band
* ''Folks!'', a 1992 American film
People with the name
* Bill Folk (born 1927), Canadian ice hockey player
* Chad Folk (born 1972), Canadian football player
* Elizabeth Folk (c. 16th century), British martyr; one of the Colchester Martyrs
* Eugene R. Folk (1924–2003), American ophthalmologist
* Joseph W. Folk (1869–1923), American lawyer, reformer, and politician
* Kevin Folk (born 1980), Canadian curler
* Nick Folk (born 1984), American football player
* Rick Folk (born 1950), Canadian curler
* Robert Folk (born 1949), American film composer
Other uses
* Folk classification, a type of classification in geology
* Folk Nation, Folks Nation, an alliance of American street gangs
See also
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* Folkish (disambiguation)
* Volk (German word)
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