Proto-prog
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Proto-prog (short for proto-progressive
Definition
Although a unidirectional English "progressive" style emerged in the late 1960s, by 1967, progressive rock had come to constitute a diversity of loosely associated style codes.[6] When the "progressive" label arrived, the music was dubbed "progressive pop" before it was called "progressive rock",[4][nb 1] with the term "progressive" referring to the wide range of attempts to break with standard pop music formula.[8]
Music writer Doyle Greene believes that the "proto-prog" label can stretch to "the later
At the time, critics generally assumed King Crimson's album In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) to be the logical extension and development of late 1960s proto-progressive rock exemplified by the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles.[9] According to Macan, the album may be the most influential to progressive rock for crystallizing the music of earlier "proto-progressive bands ... into a distinctive, immediately recognizable style".[10] He distinguishes 1970s "classic" prog from late 1960s proto-prog by the conscious rejection of psychedelic rock elements, which proto-progressive bands continued to support.[1]
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c Macan 2005, p. xxiii.
- ^ a b Holm-Hudson 2013, p. 84.
- ^ a b c Hegarty & Halliwell 2011, p. 11.
- ^ a b Moore 2004, p. 22.
- ^ a b Greene 2016, p. 182.
- ^ Cotner 2000, p. 90.
- ISBN 0-19-866212-2.
- ^ Haworth & Smith 1975, p. 126.
- ^ Macan 2005, p. 75.
- ^ Macan 1997, p. 23.
Bibliography
- Cotner, John S. (2000). "Music Theory and Progressive Rock Style Analysis". Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium. Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-070-1.
- Greene, Doyle (2016). Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2403-7.
- Haworth, John Trevor; Smith, Michael A. (1975). Work and Leisure: An Interdisciplinary Study in Theory, Education and Planning. Lepus Books. ISBN 9780860190097.
- ISBN 978-0-8264-2332-0
- Holm-Hudson, Kevin, ed. (2013). Progressive Rock Reconsidered. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-71022-4.
- Macan, Edward (1997). Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509887-7.
- Macan, Edward (2005). Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Open Court. ISBN 978-0-8126-9596-0.
- Moore, Allan (2004). Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-1315-3.
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