Rock music
| Rock music | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins: | Rock and roll, ultimately blues (mostly jump blues and Chicago blues), country music and R&B |
| Cultural origins: | Late 1940s United States |
| Typical instruments: | Guitar, Bass, Drums, often also Keyboards |
| Mainstream popularity: | Much, constant and worldwide since the 1950s |
| Derivative forms: | Alternative rock - Heavy metal - Punk rock |
| Subgenres | |
| Art rock - British rock - Christian rock - Classic Rock - Desert rock - Detroit rock - Experimental rock - Garage rock - Girl group - Glam rock - Glitter rock - Group Sounds - Hard rock - Heartland rock - Instrumental rock - Jam band - Jangle pop - Krautrock - Post-rock - Power pop - Protopunk - Psychedelia - Pub rock (Aussie) - Pub rock (UK) - Rock en español - Soft rock - Southern rock - Surf | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Aboriginal rock - Afro-rock - Anatolian rock - Blues-rock - Boogaloo - Country rock - Cumbia rock - Flamenco-rock - Folk rock - Indo-rock - Jazz rock - Madchester - Merseybeat - Progressive rock - Punta rock - Raga rock - Raï rock - Rockabilly - Rockoson - Samba-rock - Space rock - Tango-rockéro | |
| Regional scenes | |
| Argentina - Armenia - Australia - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Brazil - Cambodia - Canada - Chile - China - Cuba - Czech Republic - Croatia - Denmark - Dominican Republic - Estonia - Finland - France - Greece - Germany - Hungary - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Latvia - Lithuania - Malaysia - Mexico - Nepal - Netherlands - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovenia - South Africa - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Tatar - Thailand - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom - United States - Uruguay - Vietnam - SFR Yugoslavia - Zambia | |
| Other topics | |
| Backbeat - Rock opera - Rock band - Performers - Rock anthem - Hall of Fame - Social impact | |
Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or synthesizers. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around guitar, either electric or acoustic.
Rock music has its roots in 1950s-era rock and roll and rockabilly. In the late 1960s, rock music was blended with folk music to create folk rock, and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion, and without a time signature to create Psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, blues rock, hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal and punk rock. The most popular rock from the seventies evolved though out of a mixture of Psychedelic rock and progressive rock to create Art or Glamour Rock. Rock subgenres from the 1980s included glam metal, synth-rock and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge-style rock, Britpop, Indie rock, piano rock, surf rock and nu metal.
