Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A singer of folk songs.
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- noun A person who sings
folk songs
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Examples
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And in the process making the term folksinger to mean something closer to solo-singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar rather than someone who actually just sings and plays the kind of songs passed on down by the oral tradition.
Bob Dylan 1962
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William Elliott Whitmore has been called a folksinger, a roots troubadour and an heir to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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A Heartbeat and a Guitar is that kind of folksinger tradition -- not just the stories that are told but, how effectively they're related in the songs.
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Dylan, Gibbens suggests, made himself into a particular kind of folksinger, an individual who picked up pieces of whatever lay around, including the 'museum of sound' of 20th-century recorded music, to create an individual vision, continually open to what was new and fresh.
Expecting Rain 2009
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He taught sharecroppers, worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and according to folksinger Lee Hays helped reshape the old gospel tune "I Shall Overcome" into a political anthem.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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He taught sharecroppers, worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and according to folksinger Lee Hays helped reshape the old gospel tune "I Shall Overcome" into a political anthem.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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He could have been an antique dealer, a college professor, a folksinger, or a fraud.
Thick as Thieves WAYNE CRESSER 2011
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He could have been an antique dealer, a college professor, a folksinger, or a fraud.
Thick as Thieves WAYNE CRESSER 2011
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He taught sharecroppers, worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and according to folksinger Lee Hays helped reshape the old gospel tune "I Shall Overcome" into a political anthem.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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He taught sharecroppers, worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and according to folksinger Lee Hays helped reshape the old gospel tune "I Shall Overcome" into a political anthem.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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