Anti-Folk

The music sub-genre known as anti-folk (or antifolk) takes the earnestness of politically charged 1960s music and subverts it. Most would accept that the music tends to sound raw or experimental. Post-modern and self-conscious, it also generally mocks the seriousness and pretension of the established mainstream music scene in addition to mocking itself; some argue this makes it contrived and pretentious itself. Edit this Artist photo: Jack Conte

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Pan_Kamil wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Ja to nie ogarniam tej kuwety ... :)

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emma-lynn wrote:
last month

jeszcze jeden się objawia ^^ tag faktycznie nietrafny, ale za to ma bardzo różnorodnych przedstawicieli (: regina, blue roses i kimya najlepsze ;]

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blibblipblib wrote:
last month

"The music sub-genre known as anti-folk (or antifolk) takes the earnestness of politically charged 1960s music and subverts it" >>> means what? It's just *not* earnest or politically charged? It's too knowingly cool to stand for something (anything)?

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ewagie wrote:
October 2009

kuczę ile polaków się objawiło:)

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MartinMilk wrote:
October 2009

Anti doesnt mean that its against folk u ignorants

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macychick wrote:
October 2009

Why would you want to be anti-folk? Folk music is wonderful! If you don't like folk music, that's fine, but why not make music in a genre that you like rather than trashing other genres?

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Alysonne wrote:
September 2009

sounds a little... CONTRIVED.

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ja-paula wrote:
September 2009

Jezu Polak!

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randName wrote:
August 2009

fun and confusing genre - me like ~

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mom0 wrote:
August 2009

what a lie......... anti-folk xD!

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msierak wrote:
August 2009

Gatunek powstały w latach 60- brzmienia są surowe i wyraźne, a sam antifolk opiera się na koncepcie oraz eksperymentach LOL masło maślane

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Vio_len wrote:
July 2009

suprizing genre Oo nevertheless, regina is wonderful and so is moldy peaches

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Crustclock wrote:
July 2009

What a dumb tag. Definition changes from artist to artist? Hm, not much of a genre, then.

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jeremyshantz wrote:
May 2009

Subverts the earnestness. Yeah, that's what it does.

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Jaimesunburst wrote:
March 2009

ice_9 rules

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Laurence_KD wrote:
February 2009

I love antsy-pants.

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ChaffinchJones wrote:
February 2009

Check out Mancunian Anti-Folksters, The Abodes at - http://www.last.fm/music/The+Abodes - lots of free music

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johnlclark wrote:
February 2009

I think a better definition is "what the '60's would have sounded like had Seeger, Lomax, & Dylan rolled one at Newport instead & The Fugs & VU fought weekly for #1 Billboard charts". It's about 3 G cords w/ a Mr Microphone & an attitude just like 1977 but w/ Woody, Utah, & death metal, don't ya' know.

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johnlclark wrote:
February 2009

what gets me is how they ALWAYS come around defacing anything anti-folk. I sometimes look at just "what" these people like --- mostly american (pop) idol crap & the crap disney pushes on kids. now when i was a kid, we got crap for being into punk rock & hating the "dinosaur bands". it took years before punk became "cool" - so cool that most of what was being marketed as punk was really power pop.

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MartinMilk wrote:
January 2009

Why is that? o.O

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