Rock Music
There are varied genres of music like:
Classical Music
Rock Music
Metal Music
Hip-hop Music
Trance Music
Jazz
Folk Music
Techno Music
Opera Music
Now we are going to talk about rockmusic
Rock Music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated in the 1950s and further developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. 2 It hasits roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, andincorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources.
Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock issong-based music with a 4/4 beat utilizing a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music, lyrics often stressromantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factorsshaping the themes explored in rock music. 3 Rock places a higher degree of emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.
Rock music has also embodied andserved as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including modsand rockers in the UK and the "hippie" counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the...
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