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

Translations

subgenre of rock music

• Catalan: rock psicodèlic m
• Dutch: psychedelische rock m
• French: rock psychédélique (fr) m
• Georgian: ფსიქოდელიური როკი (psikodeliuri roḳi)
• Polish: rock psychodeliczny m, psychodelia f
• Portuguese: rock psicodélico m
• Russian: психоделический рок (ru) m (psixodeličeskij rok)
• West Frisian: psychedelyske rock