folkadelic

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English

Etymology

Blend of folk +‎ psychedelic

Adjective

folkadelic (comparative more folkadelic, superlative most folkadelic)

  1. 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.