[Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk Music"

[Shapiro, Fred]

folk music (OED 1889)

1859 Notes and Queries 4 June 451/1

The following inscriptions are forwarded in continuation, to assist in obtaining a knowledge of the phraseology made familiar through many ages to this class of artisans, the great purveyors of folk-music.

Fred Shapiro

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