The Beginning
In the 1950s, in the United States, teenagers were looking for new sounds, new sensations. For the first time, a music that addressed them directly was rock and roll.
In times of slavery in the United States, black communities developed a musical potential dominated by religious songs and their own rhythms that marked the days of work on the various plantations that they inhabited at that time. At a musical level, the influence of African rhythms and sounds were present, generating a unique and diverse style that later materialized in blues, which would become the musical ingredient that would later revolutionize music worldwide. On the other hand, the influence of white musicians through the musical genre called country and the appearance of the electric guitar would give birth to what was called rhythm and blues, the father of rock and roll. One of its forerunners was Muddy Waters in 1949.
The term rock and roll began to be used to musically lessen the popular rhythm rhythm and blues, which denoted too much the racial struggles for the time, and although in essence the two musical genres represented the same thing, they wanted to differentiate one from the other to give move on to white singers and music that doesn't mention racial conflict.
Rock and roll (or rock and roll) emerged as a distinct musical genre in the United States in the 1950s. Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, and jazz with influences from Appalachian (hillbilly) folk music, specialized gospel, country and western. Muddy Waters has many times been credited as the musician who "paved" the way to rock and roll.
There are those who date the origin of rock and roll to 1954, with the recording work of Bill Haley and his group Bill Haley and the Haley's Comets, especially with Crazy man crazy (1954) and his great success Rock Around the Clock (1955), which such an influence would have on John Lennon. Others consider Little Richard or Elvis Presley as the creator and also choose 1954 as the date of the beginning of rock and roll, the year in which Presley released his first album. Among the outstanding musicians of the time are Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent among others.
Development and Evolution
Starting in the 1960s, rock and roll had an important development and evolution that was expressed through a large number of bands and a variety of rhythms and styles that turned rock and roll into a cultural and musical phenomenon that spread around the world. world. The style is a rhythmic conjunction that is essentially based on black music. The popularization of rock and roll served so that many musicians could express themselves and get to spread in local and national media. That is the story of many black rockers, like Chuck Berry himself, who captures the social reality of his environment in the song "Johnny B. Goode."
It is not until the 1960s, when rock and roll declines and ceases to be the rhythm that represented the young rebels in the 50s, giving way to the genre called rock or rock music, which would mark a milestone among the nascent generation 60's young man
However, from rock and roll different subgenres were born such as rockabilly, doo wop or hard rock, and phenomena such as the Teen Idols or the Girl Groups, the latter sponsored mainly by Phil Spector and genres such as heavy rock have derived from him. metal, garage rock, punk rock, progressive rock or glam, and among all of them there are still common elements from rock n' roll. Thus, Lennon defined Glam as "rock n' roll with lipstick", and some hard rock or heavy metal artists like Motörhead or AC/DC like to define themselves as rock n' roll musicians.
Rock
Rock music or merely rock is a contemporary musical genre aimed at encompassing each of the various musical genres derived from rock and roll. It is usually performed, among many other instruments that are occasionally added, with guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as the organ, piano, or synthesizers. Rock music typically has a strong backbeat, often centering around the guitar, both electric and acoustic.
Primitive rock is derived from a large number of sources, primarily blues, rhythm and blues, and country, but also gospel, traditional pop, jazz, and folk. All of these influences combined into a simple, blues-based musical structure.
Rock music has its roots in the rock and roll and rockabilly era of the 1950s. In the late 1960s, rock music combined with folk music to create folk rock, with blues to create blues. rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion, and without a time stamp to create psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and Latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed several subgenres, such as soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, and punk rock. Rock subgenres of the 1980s include glam metal, synth-rock, thrash metal, hardcore punk, and alternative rock. Rock subgenres of the 1990s include grunge-style rock, britpop, indie rock, piano rock, and nu metal.
Best Rock Bands in History
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The Doors
Queen
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Rolling Stones
Ac/Dc
Guns´N´Roses
Nirvana
Metallica
KISS
The Who
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Doors
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