When most people think of rock as a genre of music, their thoughts range from thinking about classic rock to heavy metal rock. Within this genre are a variety of subgenres that people know and associate as rock. Once you ask the person specifically what kind of rock they enjoy, will they then mention a subgenre. Rock started off as a specific genre, but over the years it has branched off into more specific genres, because new ones evolved from those before it. This brings up the debate of what is truly authentic rock music and what is not. There are two ways to look at authenticity - in the more historical sense or in the more expressive sense. The historical way of looking at authenticity examines how the music playing now is similar to the
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This evolution ranged from the 1950s with the teenagers wanting music that reflected them, to the 1960s of songs of political statements to ending the decade with psychedelic music. The 1970s then started producing music of hard rock/heavy metal and ended the decade with punk rock, which was a reaction to the fact that most people believed rock bands were just playing for the money and not for the music (n.p, Rock Music Timeline, RockMusicTimeline.com). Basically, each sub genre came from the sub genre before it but occurred because people with each new generation wanted to hear something different from the last generation. However, all the subgenres can still connect to each other and keep an authentic core to itself by interpreting what the people are feeling in their audience through their music. Much like the birth of rock came out of the reflection of the teenagers of being rebellious, rock music, no matter the type, appeals to its specific audience members by reflecting what they are. For example, glam rock musicians won’t appeal to heavy-metal rock audiences because they aren’t reflecting the pounding music that the heavy-metal audience connects
This evolution ranged from the 1950s with the teenagers wanting music that reflected them, to the 1960s of songs of political statements to ending the decade with psychedelic music. The 1970s then started producing music of hard rock/heavy metal and ended the decade with punk rock, which was a reaction to the fact that most people believed rock bands were just playing for the money and not for the music (n.p, Rock Music Timeline, RockMusicTimeline.com). Basically, each sub genre came from the sub genre before it but occurred because people with each new generation wanted to hear something different from the last generation. However, all the subgenres can still connect to each other and keep an authentic core to itself by interpreting what the people are feeling in their audience through their music. Much like the birth of rock came out of the reflection of the teenagers of being rebellious, rock music, no matter the type, appeals to its specific audience members by reflecting what they are. For example, glam rock musicians won’t appeal to heavy-metal rock audiences because they aren’t reflecting the pounding music that the heavy-metal audience connects