ROCK MUSIC

\ Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. 

 It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily from the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. ... Usually, rock is song-based music with a 4/4 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse.

Chuck Berry invented rock and roll in 1955. He was a black man playing black music. ... Rock and roll was inherited by white singers, such as Presley, who often performed songs composed by obscure black musicians. White rockers became gentler and gentler, thereby drowning rock and roll's very reason to exist.

Characteristics of Rock Music

• Drums and Cymbals. If we are listening to strong sound of drums and cymbals, we can make sure that it is a rock music. ...
• Guitar. Guitar is so strong and guitar sound is so deep. ...
• Members. The members are four, drummer, pianist, guitarist and a singer. ...
• Bombastic Sound. Bombastic sound is heard when performed.
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•  Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a 4/4 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse.
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•  "That's All Right" by Arthur Crudup, released as a B side in 1946 and featuring Ransom Knowling on string bass and Judge Riley on drums, may be considered a transition song between blues and rock and roll and, arguably, the first rock and roll song. "Move It on Over" by Hank Williams was recorded on April 21, 1947.
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• People love rock music because it provided an alternative root of escape into the world of songs and music rather than those old antiquated styles. Rock music was always a fine alternative style of music rather than those old folk and classical musical styles.
   
  Elvis Presley
  The King of Rock'n Roll is a nickname most commonly associated with American rock and roll icon, Elvis Presley. See Honorific nicknames in popular music.
  
  

  Janis Joplin

  Janis Joplin would have been 70 years-old today, January 19, 2013. We celebrate her birthday by remembering her unmistakable voice. Janis Joplin was dubbed the first queen of rock 'n' roll, and her voice is singular.
   There are still many bands in different genres of rock music who are putting out great albums... However, rock music, at the mainstream level does not exist any longer.