English Explanatory Dictionary

psychedelic rock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, jazz, folk music, electronic music and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.

Word forms

psychedelic rock

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.

Synonyms

acid rock

Derived words

psy rock psych-rock
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