Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Anti-folk (sometimes antifolk or unfolk) is a music genre that takes the earnestness of politically charged 1960s folk music and subverts it. The defining characteristics of this anti-folk are difficult to identify as they vary from one artist to the next. Nonetheless the music tends to sound raw or experimental; it also generally mocks seriousness and pretension in the established mainstream music scene.