folk typically is a story in song form, many people consider hip hop modern day folk
Tracy Chapman is a folk artist she is the highest selling folk artist in the UK
"Folk music" in the true sense of the word is "music that is indigenous to a land or a peoples" so cannot be pigeon holed.
soul is part of the mid 20th century music revolutions. soul is derived from the blues which was formulated in the mid 1800s by slaves picking cotton crop, this leads many African-American's to...
I'm a lifelong musician and musicologist, and to me, the terms "traditional" music and "folk" music overlap about 90%.