MUSIC 151 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cat Stevens, Rick Wakeman, The Nice
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By the 1970s, rock had established itself as a powerful idiom within the larger picture of musical culture, inspiring many artists to fuse rock stylings with the broad instrumentation and forms of. This movement in rock focused on ambitious improvisation and compositional settings and had come to be known as progressive rock. Progressive rock"s foundation was laid in the sixties by an assortment of talent. Songwriters and producers, such as phil spector and brian wilson, brought rock into a more ambitious context using orchestras and multitrack studio effects. Lonely hearts club band, as well as the lengthy psychedelic music of jimi hendrix, matured rock to the point where artists would attempt more advanced composing and improvisation. Historically, progressive rock was a british movement, representing the work of a second wave of british rockers active from the late sixties to the end of the seventies. There are two distinct factors why progressive rock"s stronghold was in england.
