Rock the Past
The roots of today’s rock music lie in the technical and stylistic innovations brought about in the first half of the 20th century. Rock music is also part of a stream of “popular music”, whose beginnings can be dated even further back, to the end of the 19th century. In fact, it would be more accurate to define today’s rock music as the meeting of avant-garde music and popular music.
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