yacht rock
English edit
Etymology edit
A retronym, suggesting the stereotype of a yuppie listening to the music while out sailing.
Noun edit
- (music) A smooth, melodic form of soft rock music of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- Synonyms: West Coast Sound, adult-oriented rock
- Hypernym: soft rock
- 2012, Jenn Bennett, Summoning the Night: An Arcadia Bell Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- Yacht rock from the 1970s floated over the aisles like a bad storm cloud, dumping torrents of Christopher Cross and of the band that gave me sweaty nightmares, Steely Dan.
Further reading edit
yacht rock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
