Progressive music may refer to:
- Art rock
- Progg
- Progressive bluegrass
- Progressive country
- Progressive folk music, originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, in the UK the term became attached to a sub-genre that encourages stylistic or thematic innovation
- Progressive Hip-Hop, hip hop other than the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap
- Progressive house music
- Progressive jazz
- Progressive metal
- Progressive psytrance, a style of trance music
- Progressive post-hardcore, derived from hardcore punk which had typically featured very fast tempos, loud volume and heavy bass levels
- Progressive rock
Famous quotes containing the words progressive and/or music:
“... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, or we are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)