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Folk is a song-centered acoustic tradition rooted in community storytelling, everyday life, and social history. It emphasizes clear melodies, simple harmonies, and lyrics that foreground narrative, protest, and personal testimony. As a modern recorded genre, folk coalesced in the early-to-mid 20th century in the United States out of older ballad, work song, and rural dance traditions. It typically features acoustic instruments (guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica), strophic song forms, and participatory singing (choruses, call-and-response).

Music of Occitania refers to the diverse traditional and art-music practices associated with the Occitan-speaking regions of southern France (and adjacent Occitan valleys in Italy and Spain’s Val d’Aran). It encompasses medieval troubadour song, rural dance repertoires, distinctive regional instruments (notably several bagpipe types, hurdy-gurdy, and the galoubet–tambourin pair), and contemporary revival and fusion scenes that perform in the Occitan language. Historic strands include the 12th–13th century troubadour lyric tradition (canso, alba, planh, sirventes), later village dances such as the farandole, rondeau, and bourrée à 2/3 temps, and local polyphonic and responsorial singing. In the 20th–21st centuries, artist-collectives and folk ensembles have revitalized these repertoires, often blending them with chanson, reggae/dub, hip hop, and world-folk aesthetics, while centering Occitan identity and language.