This document discusses the genres, artists, audiences, and history of rock music. It mentions several rock magazines like Kerrang and Mojo that target psychographic rock fans. Key artists that helped originate rock music include Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Rock first emerged in the 1950s from genres like blues and has grown to include various subgenres. It remains a widely popular genre of music with millions of fans worldwide.

2. • Brass & Military
• Children's
• Classical and art music
traditions
• Electronic
• Breakbeat
• Drum and bass
• Electro
• Eurodance
• Hardcore
• Hi-NRG
• House
• Industrial
• Techno
• Trance
• Trip hop
• UK garage
• Folk
• Religious
• Stage & Screen
• Music Hall
• Musical
• Soundtrack
• Country
• Electronic
• Hip hop
• Jazz
• Latin
• Pop
• Reggae
• R&B
• Rock

3. • Mojo, rock and pop genre.
• The Fly, Closed Down.
• Uncut, Americana, rock and alternative country.
• Kerrang, rock and classic rock.
• New Musical Express, Punk rock.
• Classic Rock, classic rock.
• Metal Hammer, Heavy metal.
• Mixmag, dance music and club culture.
• Word, Closed Down

5. Artists often wear dark clothes, messy hairstyles, piercing,
tattoos, make-up and dark eye liner. Artists will normally be in
band and the main instruments are guitars and drums.

6. • Kerrang
• Q
• Mojo
These magazines do have the rock features above like tattoos,
piercing, black stylish hair, black clothing showing the
audiences what type of genre they’re presenting towards
them.

7.  Main Genre

8. The target audience for rock is such a large variety of people with
millions of different people enjoying the main genre of music, the
audience of rock music is psychographic people.

9. The target audience for rock is such a large variety of people with
millions of different people enjoying the main genre of music, the
audience of rock music is psychographic people.

10. Rock music first originated as Rock ‘N’ Roll in America in the 1950’s and
then started to originate into more themes into the 1960’s majority
through the United Kingdom and America. It was influenced a lot by
rhythms and blue and also country music. The genre also grew with new
type of rock genres like blue and folk which were influenced by jazz,
classical and other musical resources.

11. • Some key artists to rock music are known today as Chuck
Berry and Bo Diddey. Chuck Berry’s real name is Charles
Edward Anderson who was born on the 18th October 1926
was an American Guitarist, singer and song writer and also
one of the pioneers of the rock ‘n’ roll industry. He dominated
the 1950’s releasing well-known songs like "Maybellene”, "Roll
Over Beethoven” & “Rock and Roll Music” he helped create
the massive increase in rock fans and was a icon for many
different people.
• Bo Diddey’s real name was Ellas Othas Bate who was born in
December 30th 1928 who sadly passed away in 2008. He was
also American like Chuck Berry and was a R&B vocalist,
guitarist and songwriter. He was also known as the originator
because of his key roles from blue to rock n roll and also rock
influencing loads of different people into these types of
music.

12. Rock is a very popular type of music with the public with millions of
people listening to the different types of music the genre has to other
with loads of different types of rock music available for people to listen
to. I would say that there is a large mainstream appeal to rock music
because there are a lot of popular rock magazines like Q, Mojo and
Kerrang. For example Q has a circulation view 48,353 people on
average with every issue sold and a readership total of 339,000 people
per copy showing how popular rock is with other magazine like Kerrang
which has a similar total to how many people are buying their
magazines.

13. Nirvana is an American rock band that released a lot of albums and
tracks that helped them become well-known rock group nation wide.
These are good examples of the record labels for nirvana: Sub pop,
Geffen records and DGC records.

14. There are lots of different rock stations, one rock station though is called
Planet Rock, this ‘planet rock’ station also has it’s own website
(http://www.planetrock.com/win/win-planet-rockstock-roadie-for-the-day/)
showing that it is trying to help promote and show their type of
music to people In a number of different ways.