If prog can be summarily defined as the combination of rock and classical music, rock in opposition would be the marriage of rock and the 20th-century avant-gardes. Henry Cow are its founding fathers and attribute a strong political connotation to the movement, which is absent in progressive. Seminal.

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Henry Cow

Henry Cow were an English avant-prog and experimental rock group formed in Cambridge in 1968 by Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. As founders of Rock in Opposition, they fused complex composition with improvisation and political intent before disbanding in 1978.
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