Social Studies Component
Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as “Rock and Roll” in the U.S around the 1950s. It had developed into a different style in the 1960s and later, particularly in the U.K and the U.S.
It has its roots in 1940s’ and 1950s’ rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues, and country music.
Rock music also grew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influence from jazz, classical, and other musical source.
Rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Rock is song-based music, usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form.
By late 1960s, referred to as “the golden-age” or “classic rock” period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres have emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock.
New genres that emerged included progressive rock, glam rock, and heavy metal.
In the second half of the 1970’s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques.
Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other sub-genres, including post-punk, new wave, and eventually the alternative rock movement.
Since the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, britpop, and indie rock.
Further fusion sub-genres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock’s history, including the garage-rock/post-punk and synth pop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.
It has its roots in 1940s’ and 1950s’ rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues, and country music.
Rock music also grew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influence from jazz, classical, and other musical source.
Rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Rock is song-based music, usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form.
By late 1960s, referred to as “the golden-age” or “classic rock” period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres have emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock.
New genres that emerged included progressive rock, glam rock, and heavy metal.
In the second half of the 1970’s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques.
Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other sub-genres, including post-punk, new wave, and eventually the alternative rock movement.
Since the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, britpop, and indie rock.
Further fusion sub-genres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock’s history, including the garage-rock/post-punk and synth pop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.