#folk_music__ethnic_music__folk  the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
  supertype:  #popular_music_genre__popularmusicgenre__popular_music__popularmusic  any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
  subtype:  #folk_song__folk_ballad  a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
     subtype:  #blues__blue  a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
        subtype:  #boogie-woogie__boogie  an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
  subtype:  #schottische.folk_music  music performed for dancing the schottische
  subtype:  #country_music__country_and_western__countryandwestern__C_and_W  a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
     subtype:  #bluegrass__bluegras  a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars
     subtype:  #hillbilly_music__hillbillymusic  country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States
     subtype:  #zydeco  music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues
  subtype:  #gospel_singing__gospel  a genre of a capella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)
     subtype:  #doo-wop__doowop  a genre (usually a capella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing; characterized by close four-part harmonies; the name derived from some of the nonsense syllables sung by the back-up vocalists
     subtype:  #soul.gospel_singing  a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s; "soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"
  subtype:  #square-dance_music  music performed for square dancing

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