Rock music has the roots in rock 'n' roll influenced strongly from rhythm and blues in 1940's and 1950's. Also the music has element of blues or folk song, besides even jazz and classical music. The form of rock music is made up of rock group typically consisting of vocal, electric guitar, bass and drums, sometimes keyboard like piano and synthesizer, wind instrument and so on. The music traditionally has lyric and built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter. Main sound of rock music is that of electric guitar. But now the style has become diversification, so there are two beats or eight beats song, no lyric song, and the work made by computer.
Nowadays, rock is one of a kind of popular music. Many rock groups are formed and many kinds of pieces are composed, and many concerts are held around the word. These songs and groups are rather near "pop" music and the style is relatively calm, but originally it has some "aggressive" aspects. Sometimes rock musics deal with social affairs or political problems. The musicians make a song with their feelings charged and shout the lyric of people's scream. Rock music has been so-called "counter culture", things that oppose to mainstream or establishmentarian culture. For example, Woodstock Music and Art Festival had held in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Over thirty rock groups and folk music singer took part in the festival and 400,000 concert-goers came to the stages. This event is said that corpus of counter culture. Rock music is often evaluated, depending on the musician's performances whether well or not, So there are songs that emphasize on not lyric but playing.
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| The Woodstock Music and Art Festival |
Let's look at the simple history of rock. In 1950's, Rock'n'roll, origin of rock, was born in the U.S. The pioneer was Elvis Aron Presley, who mixed rhythm and blues, the song of black, with country music, the song of white. He also contribute dissolution of discrimination against black. Next, the beatles were formed and made UK rock in early 1960's, the United Kingdom. In latter 1960's, Phychedelic rock appeared with useing LSD. This time, musician often compose songs with drug. Rock music changed rapidly and comsiderably in 1970's. The category of rock was diversified, and this age has called the golden age of rock music. Hard rock, Progressive rock, and Punk rock were born in this time. Hard and Progressive rock were characterized by thecnic of showy guitar playing, while Punk rock had simple playing style. In 1980's, Rock had been like product, so had become popular music. Now, rock music has been mixed many category of music, and diversified more and more.
In Japan, rock music was born by the beatles' visiting Japan, and developed along with the UK and American Rock.
Next, I'll look at Japanese rock.
source:
"wikipedia" http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF_%28%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD%29
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