Meanings
- not comparableentertainmentOpposed to rock music
In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958.
2002 October 11, Cliff Doerksen, “Same Old Song and Dance”, in Chicago Reader
- uncountableentertainmentRock music that deliberately goes against the usual conventions of the genre
Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.
2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
As part of our antirock stance, Julie and I wore matching housewife-y shifts and Pro Keds and sweated it out in the ninety-plus-degree heat.
2015, Kim Gordon, chapter 30, in Carrie Thornton, editor, Girl in a Band, New York: Dey st., →ISBN, page 179
Origin
Translations
Portuguese anti-rock, anti-rock
- anti-rockopposed to rock music
- anti-rockrock that deliberately goes against conventions
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