The rock critics who began to identify garage rock music as a genre between 1971 and 1973 were American .
Between 1971 and 1973 , certain rock critics began to retroactively identify the music as a genre and for several years used the term `` punk rock '' to describe it , making it the first form of music to bear the description , predating the more familiar use of the term appropriated by the later punk rock movement that it influenced .
Garage rock