Friday, November 26, 2010

What does it mean???

What do the terms Rock, Rock n Roll and Pop music mean?

To answer this here are some dictionary meanings -

Rock Music

noun

[mass noun]
  • a form of popular music which evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960s . Harsher and often self-consciously more serious than its predecessors, it was initially characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related or anti-establishment lyrics.
  • another term for rock and roll

Rock and roll

(also rock 'n' roll)

noun

[mass noun] a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s , characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music, usually based around a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, double bass, and drums.

Pop Music

Pronunciation:/pɒp/

noun

  • (also pop music)[mass noun] commercial popular music, in particular accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music.

adjective

[attributive] 1 relating to commercial popular music:
a pop star
a pop group

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