fakeloren.
/ˈfeɪklɔː/, U.S. /ˈfeɪklɔr/ Specious folklore, esp. stories or songs with stereotypically folkloric elements which are presented as part of a genuine folk tradition.
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1949 R. M. Dorson in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 62 201 The deliberately contrived product is not folklore but what I have elsewhere called fakelore. Fakelore casts a warm, nostalgic glow over the folk; it grins coyly at their fun, and drips tears over their tragedies.
1954 M. W. Fishwick Amer. Heroes xi. 158 In the U.S.A., land of the Big Build-Up, much that passes for folklore is really fakelore.
1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. i. i. 224/1 The cover suggests one of those fakelore ensembles, but this is actually a very good collection of instrumental polkas, oberek and other dances from southeastern Poland.
2016 M. Krutikov in J. Veidlinger Going to People v. 115 The final section, ‘Soviet Folk Songs’, consisted of what folklore scholars call ‘fakelore’, newly written folk-style Soviet propaganda songs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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