folkrock

noun

a style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock-'n'-roll beat, and at its height of popularity in the late 1960s.

Also, folk-rock.

Origin:
1965–70; folk + rock²

Related forms

folk-rock·er, noun

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