What is rock music?
Q: What is rock music?
A: Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s in the United States. It has influences from jazz, classical, and other music genres, and it mostly uses the electric guitar as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums.
Q: How did rock music develop?
A: Rock music originally started in the 1940s and 1950s with the start of rock and roll, which grew out of rhythm and blues and country music. By the late 1960s, a number of different below-genres had come out, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion. From these forms came psychedelic rock. New genres that emerged later included progressive rock, glam rock and heavy metal. Punk caused other below-genres to come about into the 1980s such as New Wave, post-punk and eventually alternative rock movement. From the 1990s onwards alternative rock became increasingly popular leading to grunge, Britpop, indie rock etc.
Q: What kind of themes are found in lyrics for most types of Rock Music?
A: Most types of Rock Music lyrics are mostly about "romantic love", but they can also have social or political themes too.
Q: How does Rock Music differ from Pop Music?
A: Unlike pop music which focuses on commercial success through catchy tunes often lacking musical skill or live performance value; Rock Music focuses on musical skill as well as live performance value while attempting to be more real than pop music.
Q: What type of cultural movements were influenced by Rock Music?
A: Cultural movements influenced by Rock Music include mods & amp;rockers in UK & hippie culture in US during 60's & 70's punk culture led to goth & emo subcultures while protest songs have been used to express political activism against adult consumerism & conformity throughout history .
Q: What are some examples of hybrid genres within Rock Music?
A: Examples of hybrid genres within Rock Music include blues-rock ,folk-rock ,country-rock ,jazz -fusion ,psychedelic -rock ,progressive -rock ,glam -rock & heavy metal .
