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rough music

British  

noun

  1. (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house

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Reviewing “Patriot,” another Alex Hawke novel, in The Times Book Review in 2015, the novelist Benjamin Percy wrote that one of its most compelling scenes delivered “a rough music to the prose and a strong sense of character to the novel,” which he described in a way that fulfilled Mr. Bell’s boyhood ambition.

From New York Times

“When times get rough, music is where I go,” she said.

From Washington Post

Take, for example, the English folk custom of the 18th and 19th centuries known as rough music, ran-tan or ran-tanning.

From Washington Post

Later, on “Bury a Friend,” Eilish samples the rough music of a dental drill used during her actual orthodontist appointment; Eilish has described the song as being written from the perspective of a monster hiding underneath the bed.

From The New Yorker

“This is not the first stop on our sojourn,” Eril-Fane said, his voice like rough music.

From Literature