What exactly defines the folk genre?

Inspire asked: People have been telling me my music is folk music and this has really irritated/offended me because, without really taking much notice of genres before, I always thought folk was banjos and straw hats. But last week I noticed Cat Stevens is folk (which I just assumed was pop). I looked [...]

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