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Word: shockrock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...rugged primitivism" of rock 'n' roll, recently turned up at an avant-garde concert to play his Bachian treatment of the Beatles' song Yesterday. Attired in the accepted uniform of Hans Brinker cap and rumpled corduroy jacket, he goes to Greenwich Village to hear shockrock, stays up half the night in the coffeehouses discussing philosophy and the merits of LSD. "The only reason I'm not an acidhead right now," he says, "is that I have to play these damn concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: The Boy Who Hates Circuses | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

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