British Styles of Music - Trip Hop, Psychedelic Rock, British Blues, Music Hall, British Rock, Grime, English Art Song, Post-Britpop, Beat Music (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Alternative dance, Ambient music, Art rock, Baggy, Beat music, Big beat, Breakbeat, Breakstep, British blues, British rhythm and blues, British rock, Dance-rock, Dream pop, Drum and bass, Dubstep, English art song, Freakbeat, Gothic rock, Grime (music), Grindie, Indie pop, Landfill indie, Madchester, Music hall, Neo-psychedelia, New rave, New Yorkshire, Oi , Oldschool jungle, Post-Britpop, Psychedelic rock, Pub rock (UK), Shoegazing, Space rock, Trip hop, UK garage. Excerpt: Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It often uses new recording techniques and effects and draws on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music. It was pioneered by musicians including The Beatles, The Byrds, and The Yardbirds, emerging as a genre during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United Kingdom and United States, such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Doors and Pink Floyd. It reached a peak in between 1967 and 1969 with the Summer of Love and Woodstock Rock Festival, becoming an international musical movement and associated with a widespread counter-culture, before beginning a decline as changing attitudes, the loss of some key individuals and a back-to-basics movement, led surviving performers to move into new musical areas. Psychedelic rock influenced the creation of psychedelic pop and psychedelic soul. It also bridged the transition from early blues- and folk music-based rock to progressive rock, glam rock, hard rock and as a result influenced the development of sub-genres such as heavy metal. Since the late 1970s it has been revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia. A sitar, much used on early records of the genre.As a musical style psychedelic rock attempted to replicate the effects and enhance the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs, incorporating new electronic and record effects, extended solo's and improvisation and was particularly influenced by eastern mysticism, reflected in use of exotic instrumentation, particularly from Indian music or the incorporation of elements of eastern music. Major features include: The term psychedelic was first coined in 1957 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy. The first mu