Editing Psychedelic rock (section)

==Definition==
{{Further|Psychedelic music}}
{{See also|Acid rock}}

As a musical style, psychedelic rock incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording effects, extended solos, and improvisation.<ref name=PrownNewquist48>{{harvnb|Prown|Newquist|1997|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=60Jde3l7WNwC&pg=PA48 48]}}</ref> Features mentioned in relation to the genre include:
* [[electric guitar]]s, often used with [[Audio feedback|feedback]], [[Wah-wah (music)|wah-wah]] and [[Distortion (music)|fuzzbox]] [[effects unit]]s;<ref name = PrownNewquist48/>
* certain studio effects (principally in British psychedelia),{{sfn|Prendergast|2003|pp=25–26}} such as [[backmasking|backwards tapes]], [[Panning (audio)|panning]], [[flanging]], [[Music loop|tape loops]], and extreme [[reverb]];<ref>S. Borthwick and R. Moy, ''Popular Music Genres: An Introduction'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), {{ISBN|0-7486-1745-0}}, pp.&nbsp;52–54.</ref>
* elements of [[Indian music]] and other [[Eastern music]],<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/psychedelic-garage-ma0000002800|title=Pop/Rock » Psychedelic/Garage|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=6 August 2020}}</ref> including [[Middle Eastern music|Middle Eastern]] modalities;{{sfn|Romanowski|George-Warren|1995|p=797}}
* non-Western instruments (especially in British psychedelia), specifically those originally used in [[Indian classical music]], such as [[sitar]], [[Tanpura|tambura]] and [[tabla]];{{sfn|Prendergast|2003|pp=25–26}}
* elements of [[Free jazz|free-form jazz]];<ref name="allmusic"/>
* a strong keyboard presence, especially [[electronic organ]]s, [[harpsichord]]s, or the [[Mellotron]] (an early tape-driven [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler]]);<ref>D. W. Marshall, ''Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture'' (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2007), {{ISBN|0-7864-2922-4}}, p. 32.</ref>
* extended instrumental segments, especially [[guitar solo]]s, or [[jam session|jams]];{{sfn|Hicks|2000|pp=64–66}}
* disjunctive song structures, occasional [[key signature|key]] and [[time signature]] changes, [[Musical mode|modal]] melodies and [[Drone (music)|drones]];{{sfn|Hicks|2000|pp=64–66}}
* droning quality in vocals;<ref name="lavezzoli">{{cite book|author=Lavezzoli, Peter|pages=155–157|year=2006|title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group]]|isbn=978-0-8264-2819-6}}</ref>
* [[electronic instrument]]s such as [[synthesizers]] and the [[theremin]];{{sfn|DeRogatis|2003|p=230}}{{Verify source|date=August 2020}}
* lyrics that made direct or indirect reference to hallucinogenic drugs;{{sfn|Nagelberg|2001|p=8}}
* [[surrealism|surreal]], whimsical, esoterically or literary-inspired lyrics<ref>Gordon Thompson, ''Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), {{ISBN|0-19-533318-7}}, pp. 196–97.</ref>{{sfn|Bogdanov|Woodstra|Erlewine|2002|pp=1322–1323}} with (especially in British psychedelia) references to childhood;{{sfn|Pinch|Trocco|2009|p=289}}
* [[Victorian era|Victorian-era]] antiquation (exclusive to British psychedelia), drawing on items such as [[music box]]es, [[music hall]] nostalgia and circus sounds.{{sfn|Prendergast|2003|pp=25–26}}

The term "psychedelic" was coined in 1956 by psychiatrist [[Humphry Osmond]] in a letter to LSD exponent [[Aldous Huxley]] and used as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of [[psychedelic psychotherapy]].{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=165fn}}<ref>N. Murray, ''Aldous Huxley: A Biography'' (Hachette, 2009), {{ISBN|0-7481-1231-6}}, p. 419.</ref> As the countercultural scene developed in San Francisco, the terms [[acid rock]] and psychedelic rock were used in 1966 to describe the new drug-influenced music and were being widely used by 1967.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=21UEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22psychedelic+rock%22+%22acid+rock%22&pg=PA68 "Logical Outcome of fifty years of art"], ''LIFE'', 9 September 1966, p. 68.</ref>{{sfn|DeRogatis|2003|pp=8–9}} The two terms are often used interchangeably,{{sfn|Nagelberg|2001|p=8}} but acid rock may be distinguished as a more extreme variation that was heavier, louder, relied on long [[Jam session|jams]],<ref name=AllmusicAcidRock>{{AllMusic|class=style|id=acid-rock-ma0000012327}}</ref> focused more directly on LSD, and made greater use of distortion.<ref>Eric V. d. Luft, ''Die at the Right Time!: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties'' (Gegensatz Press, 2009), {{ISBN|0-9655179-2-6}}, p. 173.</ref>