folkadelic
folkadelic adjective: having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.
Adjective
folkadelic (comparative more folkadelic, superlative most folkadelic)
- Having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.
- The material ranges from folkadelic pump to post-core guitar-rant, and this is a fairly necessary thing to own.1989, SPIN, volume 5, number 5, page 85
- The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young — and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per cent of today's post-rock activity.2004, Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, page 359
Forms of folkadelic
| comparative | more folkadelic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most folkadelic |
Origin of folkadelic
Blend of folk + psychedelic.
Questions about folkadelic
- What does folkadelic mean?
- Folkadelic means having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.
- What part of speech is folkadelic?
- Folkadelic is an adjective.
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