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folkadelic en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of folk + psychedelic.

Meanings

1. 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:

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