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folkishness

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Folkishness (noun) means the state or quality of being folkish.

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The state or quality of being folkish.

"Mr. Hakola’s music scampers about mischievously, mixing together shapely lyricism, atonality, quirky folkishness and an almost hedonistic approach to timbre and rhythm." — Allan Kozinn, A Finnish Composer Possessed of a Joyful, Mischievous Spirit (2007)

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