>>127099173>I mean folk is usually with vocalsUsually, but definitely not necessarily. There's a lot of folk music that's instrumental to supplement folk dances.
>as I'm concerned American primitivism is a branch of the genre if you're not deafLike I said, it borrows from folk music. This is what you're hearing, but apparently you're not hearing all the other influences, like blues and country. It's a mixture of many influences, and it would be very simplistic and wide of the mark to call it folk music.
>>127103859>I guess, if you discard all contemporary folk as not folk.I don't know about discarding, but a nuanced distinction should definitely be made. Contemporary folk is usually something between popular and folk music. It borrows heavily and mainly from folk music, but it has authorship and loses the communal aspect.