experimental rock
Sign in to saveAlso known as avant-garde rock, avant rock, avant-rock
type of music based on rock
Key facts
- Other names
- Avant-rock avant-garde rock avant-garde rock and roll (early)
- Stylistic origins
- Rock avant-garde experimental free jazz noise musique concrète free improvisation tape music sound collage
- Cultural origins
- 1960s; United States and United Kingdom
- Derivative forms
- Art rock
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Experimental rock (originally known as avant-garde rock or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the 1960s. The genre emphasizes innovation over commercial appeal, incorporating influences and ideas lifted from avant-garde music through traditional rock music instrumentation. It is primarily characterized by its use of unconventional song structures, musical techniques, rhythms and lyricism, usually deemed challenging, difficult, inaccessible or underground.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “experimental rock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.