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Introduction :
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As the genre aged, it began to shed those characteristics, placing equal emphasis on craftmanship and pushing the boundaries of the music. Nevertheless rock music has always maintained its distinctive individuality by being more of a state of the mind than just musical compositions laced with words.
For most of its life, rock has been fragmented, spinning off new styles and variations every few years, from Brill Building Pop and heavy metal to dance-pop and grunge. The Flower Power progressive era of the seventies was the one that marked the golden age of rock and today it is the bands of that very age that define the genre. Also born out of this era, were hard rock, heavy metal, grunge and pop-metal.And today, everything from Chuck Berry's pounding, three-chord rockers and the sweet harmonies of the Beatles to the soulful pleas of Otis Redding and the jarring, atonal white noise of Sonic Youth can be categorized as rock.
Add to that the heavy influences of the voice of Elvis Presley, the legendary guitaring of BB King and early bands such as The Byrds, Grateful Dead and the Muddy Waters and you get what today is known as classic retro rock. Rock music is an evolving dynamic genre that is an artistic expression of the minds and attitudes of the people who defined it and still continue to do so. And that's only natural for a genre that began its life as a fusion of styles.
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