psychedelic rock

English

Etymology

The album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) first used psychedelic to describe music; the band The 13th Floor Elevators is sometimes credited with coining the term.

Noun

psychedelic rock (uncountable)

  1. (music) A genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, jazz, folk music, electronic music and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
    Synonym: (loosely) acid rock

Derived terms

  • psy rock
  • psych-rock

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