Different genres of rock music

There are a million and one different genres of Rock'n Roll.

This is a list of different rock music genres consisting into a distinct identity as rock music in the 1960's and 1950's Rock and Roll, and which developed into a disting of developed into a distinct identity as rock music in the 1960's, particullary in the United Kingdom and the United States.

By the late 1960's, a number of identifiable rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock and jazz-rock fusion, many of wich contributed tothe development of psychedelic rock influenced by the counter-cultural psyvhedelic scene.

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 subgenre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed. In the second half of the 1970's, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trend to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques.

Punk was na influence into the 1980's on the subsequente development of other subgenres, including new wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement.

From the 1990's alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, britpop and indie rock.

Further fusion subgenres have since emerged as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history.

The Music Genres List post covers many of the most popular styles of Rock music, including Rock'n Roll (one of my personal favourites), Metalcore (one of my more amusing), and even Rockabilly (one of the more fun genres).

Rock Genres

Alternative Rock
Alternative Metal
American Trad Rock
Arena Rock
Blues-Rock
British Invasion
Classic Rock
Death Metal/Black Metal
Glam Rock
Hair Metal
Hardcore
Hard Rock
Metal
Metalcore
Jam Bands
Post-Hardcore
Prog-Rock/Art Rock
Psychedelic
Rock & Roll
Rockabilly
Roots Rock

Rock can mean many different things to different folks.

Most popular generes are Rock & Roll and Classic Rock
Rock and roll music has a certain feel to it, but what creates this feeling? Well, it is a combination of the rhythm, instruments, vocals, and attitude. All of these elements blend together to create the rock and roll music people love. Some of these elements have been enhanced since the creation of rock and roll music through a natural evolution.

Rock and roll music began as a melting of the rhythm and blues and country western genres of the 1940s. The beat of rock and roll music comes mainly from a rhythm and blues boogie beat. The difference is made by the addition of an accented backbeat. This backbeat is one of the essential elements of rock and roll music.

The instruments that create rock and roll music have changed around since the development of the genre. As rock and roll music began to split into different types of rock music, they added different instruments. However, the normal instrument line up includes one or two electric guitars, a bass guitar, and a drum kit. Keyboards and other instruments have been added from time to time as well.

Vocals associated with rock and roll music are varied. Most rock and roll singers have a unique style as apposed to pop music which can sound alike. Vocals are also where the attitude comes in. Many lead singers have created the fame for their rock and roll bands. This was the case with Ozzy Osborne, Steven Tyler, Mick Jagger who are all still famous today.

The technical definition of rock and roll music isn’t important. For true fans, rock and roll music can not be defined. It is in the musicians and it comes out before the music even begins. It isn’t in the way the musician plays but in the way the musician lives and breathes.


Classic rock music will always be around. It is music that has withstood the tests of time. Although we will always love the way these songs were sung by their original artists, it is also fun to hear them revamped by our favorite modern artists. Below is a list of some of the popular cover songs made possible by classic rock music.

Covering classic rock music means that you can cross this music over to any genre you want. This can be seen with the Stevie Nicks song “Landslide”. This song was taken by the Dixie Chics and transitioned well into their country/pop genre.

Dwight Yoakam was also successful in converting classic rock music into country. In 1999 he did this with the song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. This song was originally performed by Queen in 1979. Both versions are popular and hold their own followings.

Phil Collins has had many hits both on his own and with the group Genesis. In 1981 he had a hit song with “In the Air Tonight”. Now, the song is a hit again. This time it is being performed by Nonpoint who revamped the song in 2004. With a new hard core feel, the song is being performed for a younger crowd.

If you have ever watched the movie Gothika, you might have recognized some classic rock music that had a new feel to it. This 2003 film contained the Limp Bizkit song “Behind Blue Eyes”. However, it was The Who that first performed this song in 1971.

List of Famous Rock Artists
3 Doors Down
3OH!3
Aerosmith
Al Green
Alan Jackson
Alanis Morissette
Alice In Chains
All Time Low
Asking Alexandria
Avenged Sevenfold
Avril Lavigne
B.o.B
Beastie Boys
Beck
Bee Gees
Big & Rich
Billy Currington
Billy Joel
Blake Shelton
Blink-182
Bob Dylan
Bon Jovi
Boston
Boys Like Girls
Brad Paisley
Breaking Benjamin
Brooks & Dunn
Bruce Springsteen
Bryan Adams
Buckcherry
Cee Lo Green
Chris Tomlin
Coldplay
Counting Crows
Creed
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Daft Punk
Darius Rucker
Daughtry
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
David Cook
Death Cab for Cutie
Depeche Mode
Destiny’s Child
Dierks Bentley
Disturbed
Dixie Chicks
Eagles
Earth, Wind & Fire
Eli Young Band
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Eric Clapton
Etta James
Evanescence
Faith Hill
Fall Out Boy
Fat Joe
Finger Eleven
Five Finger Death Punch
Five for Fighting
Fleetwood Mac
Foo Fighters
Foreigner
Gavin DeGraw
Gnarls Barkley
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Gorillaz
Grateful Dead
Green Day
Guns N’ Roses
Gwen Stefani
Gym Class Heroes
Hank Williams, Jr.
Heart
Hinder

Hollywood Undead

Hollywood Vampires

Incubus
Ingrid Michaelson
Jack Johnson
Jackson 5
James Blunt
James Taylor
Janet Jackson
Jason Mraz
Jay Sean
Jay-Z
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Eat World
John Denver
John Legend
John Mayer
John Mellencamp
Johnny Cash
Jonas Brothers
Josh Groban
Josh Turner
Journey
Keane
Keith Urban
Kelly Clarkson
Kenny Chesney
Kevin Rudolf
Kings of Leon
KISS
Korn
Led Zeppelin
Lifehouse
Linkin Park
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marilyn Manson
Maroon 5
Marvin Gaye
Mary J. Blige
Matchbox Twenty
Matt Nathanson
Metallica
Metro Station
Michael Jackson
Missy Elliott
Modest Mouse
Montgomery Gentry
Mötley Crüe
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Natasha Bedingfield
Neil Diamond
Neil Young
Nickelback
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Norah Jones
O.A.R.
Oasis
OneRepublic
Ozzy Osbourne
Panic! At the Disco
Papa Roach
Paramore
Paul McCartney
Pearl Jam
Phil Collins
Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Plain White T’s
Prince
Queen
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Ray LaMontagne
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rise Against
Rob Thomas
Rod Stewart
Rush
Sade
Santana
Sarah McLachlan
Secondhand Serenade
Seether
Shania Twain
Sheryl Crow
Shinedown
Simon & Garfunkel
Simple Plan
Skillet
Slipknot
Smashing Pumpkins
Snow Patrol
Staind
Stevie Wonder
Stone Temple Pilots
Styx

Sublime

Sum 41

Survivor
Switchfoot
System of a Down
The All-American Rejects
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Keys
The Cure
The Doors
The Fray
The Goo Goo Dolls
The Killers
The Offspring
The Police
The Pussycat Dolls
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Rolling Stones
The Temptations
The Wanted
The White Stripes
The Who
Third Eye Blind
Three Days Grace
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Train
U2
Uncle Kracker
Van Halen
Van Morrison
Weezer
Whitney Houston
Willie Nelson
Zac Brown Band
ZZ Top

Ana

Characteristics of rock n'roll

The original sound of rock is centered on the amplified electric guitar, wich emerged in its modern form in the 1950's with the popularization of rock n'roll, and was influenced by the sounds of electric blues guitarists.

The sound of an electric guitar in rock music is ususally supported by an electric bass guitar, wish pioneered in jazz music in the same era, and percussion produced from a drum kit that combines drums and cymbals.

This trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers.

The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the basic blues band instrumentation (prominent lead guitar, second chordal instrument, bass and dums).

A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, and usually consists of three to five members - the power trio used in rock, metal and punk rock.

Rock music is usually built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four.

Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, as well as major and minor modes.

Harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonante harmonic progressions.

Rock songs, since the late 1950's and particulary from the mid-1960's onwards, often used the verse-chorus structure derived from blues and folk music, but there has been considerable variation from this model.

Critics have stressed the electicism and stylistic diversity of rock.

Because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that "it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical defenition".

Unlike many earlier styles of popular music, rock lyrics have dealt with a wide range of themes in addition to rommantic love: including sex, rebellion against "The Establishment", social concerns and life styles.

A simple 4/4 drum pattern common in rock music

These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradicion, folk music and rhythms and blues.

Music journalist Robert Chrisrgau caracterizes rock lyrics as a "cool medium" wirh simple diction and repeated refrains, and asserts that rock's primary "function" pertains to music, or, more generally, noise.

The predominance of white, male and often middle class musicians in rock music has often been noted and rock has been seen as na appropriation of black musical forms for a young, white and largely male audience.

As a result, it has been as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics.

Ana

History of rock n'roll

Rock music is a genre of music that was originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950's, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960's and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.
It has its roots in 1940's and 1950's rock and rock n'roll, it self heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music.
Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other music sources.


Musically, rock has centered on the eletric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with eletric bass and drums.
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.
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.
The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music.
Rock places a higher degree of emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.


By the late 1960's referred to as the golden age or classic rock period, a number od distinct rock music subgenres had emerged, including hydrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, raga rock and jazz-rock, many of wich contributed to the development of psychedelic rock, wich was influenced by the countercultural psychedelic scene.
New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, wish extended the artistic elements.
In the second half of the 1970's, punk rock reacted against the perceived overblown, inauthentic and overly mainstream aspects of these genres to produce a stripped-down, energetic form of music valuing raw expression and often lyrically characterised by social and political critiques.
Punk was influence into the 1980's on the subsequent development of other subgenres, including new wave, post-punk, and eventually, the alternative rock movement.
From the 1990's, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres 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-rock and andsynthpop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.


Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for culture and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie culture, that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960's.
Simiarly, 1970's punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures.
Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drugs use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.

Ana

Introductory Post

Welcome,

This website was created with the purpose of sharing our interest about rock n'roll. Here will be approached topics such as the history of rock n'roll, different types of rock, analysing what is behind some lyrics of immortal songs, divergents of rock, idols, bands, singers, composers, guitarists, bassists and drummers.

We will also refer to and debate one important question: church and rock n'roll. Church and Rock n'roll supporters criticized one another about their ideologies and dogmas.

Ana and Mishka

Who am I?

Hello!

My name is Ana. I like to travel backpacking and I do not open hand from an independent lifestyle.
I'm fascinated by different cultures and places, and love to be in the middle of nature.
I consider myself as a curious traveler who likes to share experiences and give a sense to life.

I hope you find a peace of mind in here.

Ana