anti-folk

See also: antifolk

English

Alternative forms

• antifolk

Etymology

From anti- +‎ folk.

Noun

anti-folk (uncountable)

1. A style of music derived from folk music but with a self-mocking or ironic twist.
   • 2010, Stephanie P. Ledgin, Discovering Folk Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 60:

     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 the East Village of downtown New York City.