Anti-folk

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Anti-Folk is a genre of music in which musicians influenced by punk take up American folk and interpret it in their own way. Aggressive, rough and, above all, often (but never directly) politically colored texts of punk are combined with acoustic folk music. Childish naivety and amateurism are deliberately cultivated .

history

In the mid- 1980s , an amateur music scene emerged in New York around the Sidewalk Café in the East Village . She referred to the urban folk scene of the early 1960s in Greenwich Village and its sessions, which included the young Bob Dylan . With the prefix "Anti-" they want to distance themselves from its commercial, smooth outgrowths. They also see role models in weird bands of the 1960s who, like themselves, cultivated a conscious dilettantism, such as the Holy Modal Rounders and the Fugs . Also, The Velvet Underground , to also punk and New Wave have taken cover, be called as a historical corner as well as Beat -Dichter Allen Ginsberg and the US punks of the late 1970s as Richard Hell and the Voidoids. There are also references to the naive pop of Jonathan Richman or Daniel Johnston .

The musician Lach (named after a Northern European porn magazine) coined the term "Antifolk". He has hosted the "Open Mic" in the "Sidewalk Café" since the mid-1980s. Today it takes place weekly - on Mondays - and there is an "Open Stage" in the neighboring establishment "Raven" (Wednesdays), where anyone who has the courage can play their music. Most of the artists in this area publish their own productions. Do they have a record deal, it is usually in the Independent - record label Rough Trade Records . Two anti-folk samplers were released there in 2002, making the scene known to a larger audience.

The best-known musicians from the New York anti-folk scene are Ani DiFranco , Beck , Michelle Shocked , The Moldy Peaches and Regina Spektor .

Anti-folk musicians and bands

literature

Web links

  • www.antifolk.net Web presence of bundled anti-folk activities operated by Lach , the long-time host of the Open Mic in the "Sidewalk Café" in New York's East Village
  • www.ravenopenstage.com Open stage of the club "Raven" in New York's East Village
  • www.beatpunk.org Interview with Martin Büsser about the phenomenon and his anti-folk book
  • www.zeit.de Detailed Zeit article from 2002 on the phenomenon
  • www.arte.tv Anti-Folk on the TV program ARTE Tracks in December 2006

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  1. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Antifolk Festival: The Alternative of Alternatives - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Antifolk - laut.de - Genre . In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed April 12, 2017]).