Rock Music

Rock History

Rock started in the 1950’s and from there became a very popular music genre. It mainly came from the USA and the UK. A guy named Chuck Berry began performing within the genre. Earlier rock used to involve Mainstream, country and western and was influenced by Rhythm and blues “R&B”.

Instruments

Back in the 50’s the sound was more country/ western and they used smooth guitars and piano’s and mostly vocals, and later on when the years passed they started to be more edgy and loud and started using more electric guitars and bass drums, to create this sort of heavy metal rock.

Audience

The rock genre has a lively audience, they are always on the move and both genre’s are familiar with Rock, the age range is from 11- 40 they have a big audience in terms of ages because nearly all ages listen to rock music.

Subgenre’

s of Rock

Celtic /punk Industrial Indie

Alternative Grunge Ska

Rock history

timeline

1950’sThe 50’s is where Rock started, it had a more Rhythm and blues, country sound to it, they had artist’s like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry lee Lewis and Johnny cash

1960’sThe 60’s is where rock started to become more popular as other music styles like folk music, motown, hard rock and heavy metal started to get noticed. They had artist’s like The Beatles and The rolling stones so it was a pretty successful decade for rock.

1970’sRock in the 70’s had definitely changed from western to hard rock, as the sound, costumes and instrument types started to change as more people were familiar with the genre.

1980’sThe 80’s was a successful decade for rock, as artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson were in the music industry, they sold a lot of records and became popular every minute as their style of music were like no other.

1990’s Present

Rock in the 90’s was more influenced by young audiences/viewers and that’s why they decided to mix their genre with a bit of Pop and hip hop so that more teenagers can be associated with the music, as attracting young audiences was important and that’s when rock had successfully managed to get through all the decades and inspire a lot of people.

OldRock artists

Michael Jackson success started in the 80’s and his music is still present till now, he has influenced a lot of people in terms of his style, dance moves and style of sound.

The Beatles have been in the charts for more than 2 decades and have sold a lot of hits

Chuck Berry, started the rock history as it was influenced by country and Rhythm and blues.

The Rolling stones

Contempor

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