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Garage rock music

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Genre/Form termGarage rock music
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Variant(s)Garage band music
See alsoRock music
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Found inWork cat.: 2001126057: Hall, R. Playing for a piece of the door, c2001.
All music guide WWW site, Jan. 27, 2003 (Garage rock was a simple, raw form of rock & roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-'60s.)
Grovemusic.com WWW site, Jan. 27, 2003 (under Garage (form of 20th-century club dance music): As "garage" rock, the term had earlier been used to denote movement primarily outside the commercial rock mainstream, predominantly in the USA and beginning in the 1960s)
The Garage WWW site, Jan. 27, 2003 (Garage rock is considered to have reached its peak in the U.S. during the mid-sixties. For the most part the bands were of high-school age and fed off the musical frenzy generated by the British Invasion groups.)
Shuker, R. Key concepts pop. mus. (Garage bands; garage rock: The garage bands of the late 1960s, so called as exponents made the music in the garage or basement, were especially prominent in the U.S., where they responded to the British invasion of the American market.)
White, D. Dict. pop. mus. styles world (under United States: Garage rock: Rock music that sounds like it was [sic] recorded in a garage; raw style of rock that began in the 1960s)
Pickering, D. Cassell comp. 20th-cent. mus. (Garage band: Amateur rock or pop group, which rehearses in a garage or in other modest surroundings)