List of rock genres

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Template:Short description This is a list of rock music genres consisting of subgenres of popular music that have roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, and which developed into a distinct identity as rock music in the 1960s, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.<ref>F. Holt, Genre in Popular Music (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Template:ISBN, p. 56.</ref> By the late 1960s, a number of identifiable rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion,<ref name=AllmusicGarage>R. Unterberger, "Garage Rock", in V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), Template:ISBN, pp. 1320–1.</ref> many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock influenced by the counter-cultural psychedelic scene.<ref name=Bogdanov2002Psych>R. Unterberger, "Psychedelic Rock", in V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), Template:ISBN, pp. 1322–3.</ref> New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements;<ref name=Bogdanov2002Prog>R. Unterberger, "Progressive Rock", in V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), Template:ISBN, pp. 1330–1.</ref> glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style;<ref name=Shuker2005pp124-5>R. Shuker, Popular Music: the Key Concepts (Abingdon: Routledge, 2nd edn., 2005), Template:ISBN, pp. 124–5.</ref> and the diverse and enduring major subgenre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed.<ref>R. Walser, Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993), Template:ISBN, p. 7.</ref> In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques.<ref name=BogdanovPunk>J. Dougan, "Punk Music", in V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), Template:ISBN, pp. 1335–6.</ref> Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other subgenres, including new wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement. From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock.<ref name=Bogdanov2002USAlternative>S. T. Erlewine, "American Alternative Rock / Post Punk", in V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), Template:ISBN, pp. 1344–6.</ref> Further fusion subgenres have since emerged as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history. Template:Compact ToC

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