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...
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Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll, Rock n' Roll or proto-rock) is a genre of popular music that evolved...
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spearheaded by the Beatles, British rock music has had a considerable impact on the development of American music and rock music across the world. Initial attempts...
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list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in...
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Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground...
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Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected...
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of music that emerged after punk rock. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many contemporary popular music styles...
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Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term...
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This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year 2024. The British all-female indie rock band The Last Dinner Party is named the BBC...
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trends in popular music in the 1980s. The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out...
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