Title: Rock music - Wikipedia
Headings: Rock music
Rock music
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Contents
Characteristics
1950s: Rock and roll
Early 1960s
Pop rock and instrumental rock
Latin rock
Surf music
British Invasion
Garage rock
Psychedelia and progressivism
Blues and folk fusions
Blues rock
Folk rock
Psychedelic rock
Progressive rock
Jazz rock
Early 1970s
Roots rock
Glam rock
Chicano rock
Soft rock, hard rock, and early heavy metal
Christian rock
Punk era
Punk rock
New wave
Post-punk
Heartland rock
Emergence of alternative rock
Alternative
Grunge
Britpop
Post-grunge
Pop punk
Indie rock
Alternative metal, rap rock and nu metal
Post-Britpop
Post-hardcore and emo
Garage rock/post-punk revival
Digital electronic rock
Mainstream decline (2010s–present)
Impact of COVID-19 on the rock scene
Social impact
Role of women
See also
Notes
References
Further reading and listening
External links

Content: New genres that emerged included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements, glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style, and the diverse and enduring subgenre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock reacted by producing stripped-down, energetic social and political critiques. Punk was an influence in the 1980s on new wave, post-punk and eventually alternative rock . From the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres have since emerged, including pop punk, electronic rock, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including the garage rock / post-punk and techno-pop revivals in the early 2000s. The late 2000s and 2010s saw a slow decline in rock music's mainstream popularity and cultural relevancy, with hip hop surpassing it as the most popular genre in the United States. Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major subcultures including mods and rockers in the United Kingdom and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the goth, punk, and emo subcultures. Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex, and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity. At the same time, it has been commercially highly successful, leading to charges of selling out.