Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects critically identified challenging approaches to rock, making use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. The concept of art rock precludes the aspiration to elevate rock from entertainment to an artistic statement,^[8] with the term typically being applied in response to mainstream rock music.^[4] Influences that have been perceived in music described with the term, also found in progressive rock, include art music, experimental music, avant-garde music, classical music, and jazz.^[2]

Listening contemplatively rather than enjoyment as entertainment or dancing to music^[4] is the distinction often given by music critics and journalists who have applied the term.^[8] Art rock is most associated with a certain period of rock music, beginning in 1966–67 and ending with the arrival of punk rock in the mid-1970s.^[9] After, the genre was identified as occasionally being fused with later popular music genres of the 1970s–90s.^[4]