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a type of rock music in which groups with electric instruments perform traditional folk songs with a strong beat, sometimes also using traditional instruments such as flutes and violins. Folk rock was popular in Britain and America in the 1960s and 1970s. Many folk-rock songs by singers such as Bob Dylan contained social and political comments about life in that period, such as protests against the Vietnam War . Popular folk-rock groups in Britain have included the Fairport Convention , Steeleye Span and Pentangle. See also folk music and songs .