Researched By Nicholas Phillips

 Rock as most people know it started off as Rock’n’Roll in the1950’s  Before that, influences came from music including jazz, blues, rhythm & blues (R&B), country and western.  In an attempt to rejuvenate the music industry in a much more modern and upbeat way, white country artists took inspiration from black rhythm and blues artists.  Many black artists then made use of white artist’s hardware, which in turn lead to music such as Motown and Soul.  Thought to have originated from Central and Southern USA  The overall genre of Rock, in effect, is from African origin.

Timeline ‘Rocket 88’, widely recognised as the first ever rock single, was released Elvis Presley records his first commercial record ‘Beatlemania’ begins, as the Beatles top the US chart st Glastonbury festival British Punk music was started MTV is released in the US ‘Thriller’ stayed no. 1 in the charts for 37 weeks 1983 Freddie Mercury Died, and Grunge band Nirvana made their debut album Live Aid performances around the world Universal and Polygram merge, making it the biggest record company Kurt Cobain, lead signer of Nirvana, is found dead next to a shotgun 2001 Emo culture went mainstream (sadly)

 Guitar (acoustic and electric)  Bass  Drum Kit  Vocalist  Can include other instruments such as piano, trumpet, backing vocals etc.

 No particular ‘look’  Broad range of ages; young and old  Started off in 1950s as teenage-based; rebellious  Part of a major change in British and American societies  Hippies  Used to be mainly white American and European audiences  As rock music became more mainstream and worldwide, the type of audience widened to how it is today

Sub-Genres  Funk Funk -chilled, relaxed, easy going, creative  Britpop Britpop -mellow, British, lazy, young  Alternative Alternative -wants to be different  Metal Metal -Loud, aggressive, angry, rebellious  Folk Folk -traditional, outgoing, middle-aged/old age  Emo (core) Emo (core) -Emotional, depressed, suicidal

Magazines  Q magazine -Nationwide UK, published monthly circulation: 130,179  Rolling Stone -international to 17 countries, US-Based, published fortnightly circulation: 1,000,000  Kerrang! -Nationwide UK, published weekly circulation: 43,000  Metal Hammer -International to 8 countries, UK-based, Published monthly circulation: 49,143  Revolver -Nationwide US, published every two months circulation: 150,000

 Rock music differs in popularity among different regions of countries.  Generalised, rock is one of the top 3 favourite genres, alongside Hip-Hop and Rap  Originally, rock was the dominant genre for many years, but as different, urban-based groups started to increase in popularity from the introduction of the internet, people now listen to a variety of music genres, and not just rock  Rock has become merged with other genres to create popular music which satisfies the multi-genre audiences

 EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries)  Sony Music Entertainment  Warner Music Group  Universal Music Group  Silvertone  Roadrunner This is a chart representing the world music market shares according to record companies and labels

 Film:  Radio Stations:  Television:  Events:  Kerrang! TV  Scuzz  4Music  MTV  VH1  Radio 2  Kerrang! Radio  Absolute Radio  XFM  Q Radio  VIVA  Download Festival  Glastonbury  Woodstock  Isle of Wight Festival  Live 8  This is Spinal Tap  Wayne’s World  The Kids are Alright  School of Rock  Tenacious D in The Pick of destiny

 The future of rock music lies with its audience and sub- divisions of its own sub-genres  Conventional rock music listeners appear to be getting older, so eventually traditional music such as folk may die out  Rock music will have sub-genres which nowadays will be put into other genres such as hip-hop, as the meaning definition of rock music becomes more vague  Rock music will ultimately dissipate into other genres, and will trigger the starting point of a new genre of music altogether, much like how the blues and jazz music started off rock music