Folk art, music, and lore refer to the

A. expressive cultures of ordinary people.
B. unrefined manifestations of human creativity produced by illiterate societies.
C. forms of artistic expression that exist independently of any given cultural system.
D. forms of artistic expression found in the New World prior to the arrival of Columbus.
E. manifestations of human creativity that siblings exchange with their progenitors.


Answer: A

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