anti-folk
anti-folk noun: a style of music derived from folk music but with a self-mocking or ironic twist.
Noun
anti-folk (uncountable)
- A style of music derived from folk music but with a self-mocking or ironic twist.
- Largely an underground movement, anti-folk is a marriage of folk and punk rock, which looks to such artists as Woody Guthrie, Joey Ramone, and Dock Boggs for uniquely blended results. It largely, but not patently, rejects pop-infused folk. It appears to have first surfaced in the mid-eighties in...2010, Stephanie P. Ledgin, Discovering Folk Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 60
Forms of anti-folk
| alternative form | antifolk |
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Origin of anti-folk
From anti- + folk.
Questions about anti-folk
- What does anti-folk mean?
- Anti-folk means a style of music derived from folk music but with a self-mocking or ironic twist.
- What part of speech is anti-folk?
- Anti-folk is a noun.
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