Progressive music

Progressive music is a type of music that falls between formalism and eclecticism, experimenting with alternative routes and expanding stylistic boundaries outward. Rooted in the idea of a cultural alternative, the music embodies a continuous move between explicit and implicit references to genres and strategies derived from various cultural domains, such as European art music, Celtic folk, West Indian, or African, with it sometimes resulting in the reification of new aesthetic standards.

"Formalism" refers to a preoccupation with established external compositional systems, structural unity, and the autonomy of individual art works. Like formalism, "electicism" connotates a predilection toward style synthesis or integration. However, contrary to formalist tendencies, eclecticism foregrounds discontinuities between historical and contemporary styles and electronic media, sometimes referring simultaneously to vastly different musical genres, idioms, and cultural codes. The word "progressive" comes from the basic concept of "progress", which refers to development and growth by accumulation, and is often deployed in numerous music genres such as progressive country, progressive folk, and progressive jazz. As a genre label, it is most significantly used in rock, whereas in marketing, "progressive" is used to distinguish a product from "commercial" pop music. Progressive music may also be associated with auteur-stars and concept albums, considered traditional structures of the music industry.

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