Briefly describe the distinctions between folk, popular, and classical music.

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Folk music:music performed by and for close-knit communitiestraditionally rural and geographically isolatedcenter of attention is on the music performance itself, NOT the singer, performer, or the quality of the singing or performingmusic disseminated predominantly by oral tradition (now including radio, recordings, television, and film) but also by print tradition (broadsides, songsters)  Popular music:music created for and enjoyed by a vast majority of people, undefined by regionproduced by skilled professionalscommercially produced and distributeddisseminated first, primarily by notation, sheet music; later, oral tradition (radio, recordings, television, and film)  Classical music:cultivated music; encompasses a wide variety of media, forms, textures, harmonies, rhythms, and stylesdoes not depend on mass appeal for its existenceproduced by highly-skilled professionalsrewards a certain degree of musical experience in the listener 

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