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Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s. Further fusion sub-genres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including the garage rock/ post-punk and synthpop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium. From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other sub-genres, including new wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt social and political critiques.

New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed. Rock places a higher degree of emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.īy the late 1960s, referred to as the 'golden age' or 'classic rock' period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock, which was influenced by the countercultural psychedelic scene. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar and drums. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources. It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as ' rock and roll' in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. Other topics Pop music – Backbeat – Rock opera – Rock band – Hall of Fame – Social impact – List of rock music terms

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