Search results
Neo-prog is characterised by deeply emotional content, often delivered via dramatic lyrics and a generous use of imagery and theatricality on-stage. The music is mostly the product of careful composition, relying less heavily on improvised jamming.
The ‘traditional’ historiography of rock points to the emergence of punk as the moment at which prog was killed, but a deeper analysis can demonstrate how progressive music did not die at all, if we are willing to leave behind the reductive and stereotypical idea of prog as a merely British and “symphonic” phenomenon.
broad outlines of the genre from its inception in the psychedelic era, through its alleged death at the hands of punk, to its descent underground in the 1980s and its slow mutation and eventual re-emergence. Yet, despite what its title may suggest, it is neither a complete history of progressive rock nor a textbook, as the authors do not
- Paul Hegarty, Martin Halliwell
- 2011
a “neo-progressive” style of music in the 1990s and beyond and because, like subaltern histories of progressive rock in non-Anglo-American countries, it offers a fuller picture of the development of the meta-genre as a whole.
“Progressive rock,” “classical rock,” “art rock,” “symphonic rock”- these labels have been used over the last twenty-five years by various authors to designate a style of popular music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, primarily by British rock musicians.’
Neo-Progressive rock (more commonly "Neo-Prog") is a subgenre of Progressive Rock that originally was used to describe artists strongly influenced by the classic symphonic prog bands that flourished during the 1970s. At the beginning of the neo-prog movement, the primary influence was early to mid-70's Genesis.
People also ask
What influenced neo-prog music?
What is neo-progressive rock?
What is neo-progressive music?
What does neo prog mean?
Is symphonic prog a continuation of progressive rock?
Did Progressive Music Die?
Second, the early 1980s witnessed the rise of the neo-progressive movement. Finally, a number of new bands have cultivated what might be termed a post-progressive style. (King Crimson) ceased to exist in September 1974, which was when all English bands in that genre should have ceased to exist.
