Editing Progressive music (section)

===Definitions===

"Progressive rock" is almost synonymous with "[[art rock]]"; the latter is more likely to have experimental or avant-garde influences.<ref name="AMProg">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/prog-rock-ma0000002798|website=[[AllMusic]]|title=Prog-Rock}}</ref> Although a unidirectional English "progressive" style emerged in the late 1960s, by 1967, progressive rock had come to constitute a diversity of loosely associated style codes.{{sfn|Cotner|2000|p=90}}{{refn|group=nb|The term was also partly related to [[progressive politics]], but those connotations were lost early in the 1970s.{{sfn|Robinson|2017|p=223}}}} With the arrival of a "progressive" label, the music was dubbed "[[progressive pop]]" before it was called "[[progressive rock]]".{{sfn|Moore|2004|p=22}}{{refn|group=nb|Starting in about 1967, "pop music" was increasingly used in opposition to the term "rock music", a division that gave generic significance to both terms.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gloag|first1=Kenneth|editor1-last=Latham|editor1-first=Alison|title=The Oxford Companion to Music|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-866212-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780198662129}}</ref>}} "Progressive" referred to the wide range of attempts to break with the standard pop music formula.{{sfn|Haworth|Smith|1975|p=126}} A number of additional factors contributed to the label—lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", some harmonic language was imported from jazz and [[Romantic music|19th-century classical music]], [[Album Era|the album format overtook singles]], and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing.{{sfn|Moore|2016|pp=201–202}}