ROCK MUSIC

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 Introduction
Rock is a popular genre of music that originated with
rock and roll in the 1940s and 1950s, but it
encompasses a wide range of musical styles today. Rock
and roll started drawing inspiration from blues, folk,
and country music in the middle of the twentieth
century.
It’s also sometimes written as rock & roll or rock ‘n’ roll.
 African Roots
Large numbers of black people
were living closer together than
at any other time in history, and
they began to imitate fashion
and hear each other’s music.
A cultural collision burgeoned as
whites began to take up black
music, like jazz and swing. While
rock and roll’s immediate roots
are in rhythm and blues and
country, influences were
widespread.
Origins of Rock Music

Rock and roll origins are a point

of contention with historians. The
general agreement is that it
began in the southern regions of
the United States, where most
popular rock and roll performers
began.
 Rock 1940s-1960s
In contrast to the safe pop music of the era, rock’s
aggressive attack suggested a sexual freedom that was
shocking during that conservative age. By the early '60s,
Berry’s followers, most notably the Rolling Stones,
expanded rock’s scope by transitioning from singles artists
into musicians capable of producing cohesive albums of
songs.
 Rock's Evolution (1970s)

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Rock's Splintering (1980s)
Alternative rock cemented its
cultural standing when the music
magazine Billboard created a new
chart in 1988 for alternative rock,
which the publication classified as
modern rock. For most music fans,
terms such as modern rock,
alternative, and indie are
synonymous ways of describing this
popular subgenre.
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emulates hard-rock traditions of the past while providing a
contemporary spin.
 Rock Genres
Death Metal/Black Metal
Children of Bodom, Cannibal Corpse
Glam Rock
Nu metal David Bowie, Queen, Kiss
Slipknot, Static-X, KoRn
Power metal
Trash metal DragonForce, Halloween
Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax Heavy metal
Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Iron
Maiden

Hard rock
ACϟDC, Guns N' Roses, Deep Purple