folkadelic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of folk + psychedelic
Adjective
[edit]folkadelic (comparative more folkadelic, superlative most folkadelic)
- Having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.
- 1989, SPIN, volume 5, number 5, page 85:
- The material ranges from folkadelic pump to post-core guitar-rant, and this is a fairly necessary thing to own.
- 2004, Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, page 359:
- 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.