Rock music originated in the 1940s-1950s and was influenced by genres like blues, country, folk, and jazz. It is typically centered around the electric guitar, drums, and keyboards and uses a strong beat and catchy melody. Rock music evolved from rock and roll, which originated in the USA in the late 1940s-1950s as a fusion of blues, jump blues, and jazz. Notable rock artists include The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Queen, and The Who. Surf music, popular in the 1960s, had instrumental and vocal forms influenced by Dick Dale. Punk rock developed in the UK in the 1970s as a harder,

1. Rock Music

2. Rock Music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that first entered the mainstream in the 1960s.
It’s roots go way back to 1940s and 1950s, rock n roll and blues, country music and it
also drew on folk music and jazz. The sound of rock music most of the time revolves
around the electric guitar, drums and keyboard and since the 1950s, the synthesizers
which are in some cases used as soloing instruments and it has three chords which are
a strong, insistent beat and a catchy melody.

3. Rock n Roll
Rock n Roll which is often written as Rock & Roll and
rock ‘n’ roll that originated and evolved in the USA
during the late 1940s and 1950s from a combination of
African-American genres such as blues, jump blues and
jazz. The term rock n roll has two different meaning to
it, the first referring to the first wave of music that
originated in the USA in the 1950s and later developed
into the more encompassing international style which
is known as “rock music”

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The rolling stones
Bob Dylan
Elvis Presley
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Queen
The Who

5. Surf Music
Surf Music is associated with surf culture, it was
particularly popular in 1961 and 1966. It has two
major forms which are instrumental surf rock with
an electric guitar or saxophone playing the main
melody and vocal surf pop. Artists such as Duane
Eddy, Link Wray and the Ventures was developed by
Dick Dale who added ‘wet’ reverb, alternate
picking, middle eastern and Mexican influences
producing the relational hit ‘Let’s Go Trippin’ in
1961 which started the surf music craze.

6. Punk Rock
Punk rock is a sub-genre of rock and It began to
develop between 1974 and 1976 in the UK. Punk
bands created hard-edged music and fast paced
and it was often political. By 1976, bands such
as The Sex Pistols were recognized as Punk.
Today punk rock music has become mainstreams
and bands such as Green Day identifying with
Punk Rock Genre.