Folk 포크

Folk music centered on acoustic guitar

📖 Genre History

Folk music evolved from traditional folk songs, and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez established modern folk with social messages in the 1960s. It became a symbol of the civil rights movement with protest songs and continues today as indie folk.

✨ Key Characteristics

  • Acoustic instruments at the center
  • Storytelling lyrics
  • Simple melodies and harmonies
  • Social and personal messages

🎤 Notable Artists

Bob Dylan

USA · 1961-Present

Blowin' in the Wind The Times They Are a-Changin' Like a Rolling Stone

Joni Mitchell

Canada · 1964-Present

Big Yellow Taxi Both Sides Now A Case of You

Simon & Garfunkel

USA · 1964-1970

The Sound of Silence Bridge Over Troubled Water Mrs. Robinson

Fleet Foxes

USA · 2006-Present

White Winter Hymnal Mykonos Helplessness Blues

🎵 Recommended Tracks

1

Blowin' in the Wind

Bob Dylan

1963
2

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

1964
3

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

1970
4

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

1988

🎭 Related Subgenres

Contemporary Folk Indie Folk Anti-Folk Folk Rock Neofolk
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