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Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The origins of rock and roll are complex.Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It originated from African American music such as jazz , rhythm and blues , boogie-woogie , electric blues , gospel , and jump blues , [ 3 ] as well as ...
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll , country and blues , and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals.
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock [4]) is a fusion genre and form of rock music [5] characterized by a strong commercial appeal, [6] with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music.
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The title track to the landmark album of the same name resides very comfortably in hard rock territory, as it’s based on a heavy guitar riff, piercing lead work from George Harrison, and an ...
This is a list of rock music genres consisting of subgenres of popular music that have roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, and which developed into a distinct identity as rock music in the 1960s, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom. [1]