ethnic music, folk, folk music - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
common people, folk, folks - people in general (often used in the plural)
Example:- they're just country folk
family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept - people descended from a common ancestor
Example:- his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
folk, tribe - a social division of (usually preliterate) people