origins or the rock music genre

1. Rock Music

2. Rock Music Genre
‘Rock’ or ‘Rock and Roll’ is a genre of music originating the United
States in the 1950s before quickly being popular and vastly developing
in Britain during the 60s.
Rock music has roots in other genres such as jazz, blues and country,
and utilises drums and the electric guitar to provide a distinctive “Rock
N’ Roll’ sound.
During the ‘Golden Age’ of the 1960s, subgenres emerged, combining
other genres with rock such as folk and raga. This quickly led to the
creation of new genres such as psychedelic rock and glam rock as
artists began to experiment more and more with their instruments and
classic genres.

3. Rock and Culture
Rock has greatly influenced the culture of the Western World,
especially during the 1960s through to the 1980s, when subcultures
began to emerge within society – specifically within youth.
Groups such as Teddy Boys, Mods (Modernists) and Rockers developed
during the 1960s in the UK, following specific music and designing their
own unique ‘image’ to individualise each subgroup. In America, Hippies
emerged in places such as San Francisco and the group quickly spread
across seas to the UK. These groups protested values sometimes
preached within the music of their rock bands as ‘protest songs’,
demonstrating over things such as sex, war, politics and drugs.

4. Rock and Culture
A lull was reached sometime during the 1960s as the rock genre was
forced to contend with new music and genres such as Brit Pop which
had quickly swept through the USA was known as the ‘British Invasion’
as British culture was exhibited and spread into America.
Contending with the subcultures which had grown from rock and roll,
were new groups such as the Punks, Goths, Skinheads and Emos.

5. Rock Artists:
• Rolling Stones
• Elvis Presley
• John Lennon
• Pink Floyd
• AC/DC
• Guns N’ Roses
• Linkin Park