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 ( : 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 proper ...
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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 Narrative, tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, r ...
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Folk art
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Folk dance
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Folk hero
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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 ...
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Folk metal
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Folk punk
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk music, folk and rock music, 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 American fo ...
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Folk religion
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Folk taxonomy
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Folk Plus or Folk +, an Albanian folk music channel
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Folks (band), a Japanese band
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Folks!'', a 1992 American film
People with the name
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Bill Folk (born 1927), Canadian ice hockey player
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Chad Folk (born 1972), Canadian football player
* Elizabeth Folk (c. 16th century), British martyr; one of the
Colchester Martyrs
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Eugene R. Folk (1924–2003), American ophthalmologist
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Joseph W. Folk (1869–1923), American lawyer, reformer, and politician
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Kevin Folk (born 1980), Canadian curler
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Nick Folk (born 1984), American football player
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Rick Folk (born 1950), Canadian curler
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Robert Folk (born 1949), American film composer
Other uses
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Folk classification, a type of classification in geology
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Folks Nation, an alliance of American street gangs
See also
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Folkish (disambiguation) Folkish may refer to:
*Folk culture, in the sense "of the common people; traditional, sophisticated, yet unconventional"
*'' Völkisch movement'' of German ethnic nationalism
See also
* Folk (disambiguation)
* Volk (disambiguation)
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Volk (German word)
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