"music of the people," 1852 (Andrew Hamilton, "Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles"), from folk in the "of the people" sense (also see folklore) + music. Modeled on German Volksmusik. In reference to a branch of modern popular music imitative of the simple and artless style of music originating among the common people (originally associated with Greenwich Village in New York City) it dates from 1958.
Of airs properly national, it should be remembered, the composers are not known. They are found existing among the people, who are ignorant of their origin. They are, to borrow a German phrase, folk-music. [Richard Grant White, "National Hymns," New York, 1861]
The term National Music implies that music, which, appertaining to a nation or tribe, whose individual emotions and passions it expresses, exhibits certain peculiarities more or less characteristic, which distinguish it from the music of any other nation or tribe.*
* The Germans call it Volksmusik, a designation which is very appropriate, and which I should have rendered folk-music, had this word been admissible. [Carl Engel, "An Introduction to the Study of National Music," London, 1866]
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1. The word "volk" translates literally as "folk"
volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。
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2. The folk-song world was another of his abiding interests.
民歌是他的另一个始终不渝的爱好。
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3. Jack was a folk hero in the Greenwich Village bars.
在格林尼治村的酒吧里杰克是人们心目中的英雄。
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4. A military band played Russian marches and folk tunes.
一支军乐队演奏了俄罗斯的进行曲与民乐。
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5. I don't know what those folk think they are playing at.
