Draft:Outline of rock music

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to rock music:

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 of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock is centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, 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. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most popular genre of music in the U.S. and much of the Western world from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Subgenres of rock music

• Alternative rock
  • Britpop
  • Dream pop
  • Emo
  • Gothic rock
  • Grunge
  • Indie rock
  • Indie pop
    • C86
  • Industrial rock
  • Jangle pop
  • Madchester
  • Paisley Underground
  • Post-grunge
  • Post-rock
  • Shoegazing
• Art rock
• Bisrock
• C-Rock
• Dark cabaret
• Desert rock
• Folk rock
• Garage rock
• Glam rock
• Hard rock
• Heavy metal
  • Black metal
  • Death metal
  • Doom metal
  • Folk metal
  • Glam metal
  • Gothic metal
  • Grindcore
  • Groove metal
  • Industrial metal
  • Metalcore
  • Nu metal
  • Power metal
  • Progressive metal
  • Rap metal
  • Sludge metal
  • Speed metal
  • Symphonic metal
  • Thrash metal
• J-Rock
• Paisley Underground
• Pop rock
• Arena rock
• Baroque pop
• Beat music
• Power pop
• Sunshine pop
• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic rock
  • Acid rock
• Punk rock
  • Anarcho punk
    • Crust punk
  • Deathrock
  • Hardcore punk
    • Post-hardcore
  • New wave
  • Pop punk
  • Post-punk
  • Psychobilly
• Rap rock
  • Rapcore
• Rock and roll
• Soft rock
• Southern rock
• Surf rock

Fusion genres of rock music

• 2 Tone – fuses elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae and pop
• Alternative dance – combines elements of dance-pop (or other forms of electronic house or techno) and alternative rock genres such as indie rock
• Aboriginal rock –
• Afro-rock –
• Anatolian rock – fusion of Turkish folk and rock music
• Beat music – fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul
• Bhangra rock – fusion of bhangra and rock music
• Blues-rock – combines bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles
• Boogaloo –
• Country rock –
• Flamenco-rock –
• Folk rock –
• Glam Punk –
• Indo-rock –
• Punk rock –
• Jazz fusion –
• Madchester –
• Progressive rock –
• Punta rock –
• Raga rock –
• Raï rock –
• Rap rock –
• Rockabilly –
• Rockoson –
• Samba-rock –
• Space rock –
• Stoner rock –
• Sufi rock –

Regional rock scenes

• American rock (United States)
• Argentinean rock
• Armenian rock
• Aussie rock
• Belarusian rock
• Belgian rock
• BisRock – Philippines. The term comes from the Cebuano words Bisaya, referring the Visayan language, and rock, for rock music.
• Bosnian rock
• Brazilian rock – usually sung in Portuguese
• British rock (United Kingdom)
  • Canterbury scene – loosely describes the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s
  • The Scene That Celebrates Itself - musical scene in the early 1990s within London and the Thames Valley area
• Canadian rock
• Chilean rock
• Chinese rock
• Cuban rock
• Croatian rock
• Danish rock
• Dominican rock
• Estonian rock
• Finnish rock
• French rock
• Greek rock
• German rock
• Hungarian rock
• Icelandic rock
• Indian rock
• Indonesian rock
• Irish rock
• Israeli rock
• Italian rock
• Japanese rock
• Latvian rock
• Lithuanian rock
• Malaysian rock
• Mexican rock
• Nepali rock
• Kiwi rock
• Norwegian rock
• Pakistani rock
• Peruvian rock
• Pinoy rock
• Polish rock
• Portuguese rock
• Russian rock
• Serbian rock
• Slovenian rock
• Spanish rock
  • Rock in spanish
• Swedish rock
• Swiss rock
• Tatar rock
• Thai rock
• Turkish rock
• Ukrainian rock
• Uruguayan rock
• SFR Yugoslav Pop and Rock scene
• Zam-rock (Zambia)

History of rock music

• Origins of rock and roll
• Break it All: The History of Rock in Latin America
• The History of Rock 'n' Roll
• The History of Rock and Roll contents
• Timeline of progressive rock and progressive metal
• Timeline of punk rock

General rock music concepts

• Backbeat – a syncopated accentuation on the "off" beat found in rock'n'roll. In a simple 4/4 rhythm these are beats 2 and 4.

Common instruments

• Bass guitar
• Drums
• Guitar
  • Electric guitar
• Harmonica
• Horn section
• Piano
  • Electric piano
  • Keyboard
  • Synthesizer

See also

• Outline of music
• List of popular music genres