Key facts
- Other names
- Alternative folk
- Stylistic origins
- Alternative rock folk indie rock
- Cultural origins
- 1990s
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- contemporary folk music
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Noah and the Whale 2010.jpg
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- Commons category
- Indie folk
- inception
- 1990-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Indie folk
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Encyclopedic overview
Indie folk (also called alternative folk) is an alternative genre of music that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “indie folk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.