Theoretical Framework

The rock is a musical genre of the twentieth century and contemporary times which are born each derived various genres of rock and roll. Usually interpreted, among many other instruments normally added, with guitar, drums, bass and sometimes keyboard instruments such as organ and piano.

The primitive rock is derived from many sources, primarily blues, rhythm and blues and country, but also gospel, jazz and folk. All these influences combined in a simple, blues-based musical structure that was fast, danceable and catchy.

•  1950s

Elvis Presley.

1954, an unknown young man named Elvis Presley recorded the song That's All Right Mama, which according to Rolling Stone is the first rock and roll history, Elvis initially fails to reach a large audience. It was in 1956 that the phenomenon of Elvis begins and with it the phenomenon of rock and roll, pelvic movements, dancing, good looks and versatile voice, Elvis to make reach the top of the pop music, being called, The king or king of rock and roll. The 50s
Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Little Richard, the rock predominantly "black". The 50s


Chuck Berry, one of the most iconic and respected rock infuyentes of recent times.
Bill Haley, Gene Vincent, Vince Taylor, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison popularize many successes, bringing rock and roll to the white population. The 50s
Popularization of large scale rock. The 50s.

• 1960s British Invasion and Beatlemania

The Beatles.
Arise The Beatles and Rolling Stones called British Invasion, The Kinks, Small Faces, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Animals. Birth of the mod movement led by several of these groups. Early to mid 60s.
In the United States initiated the so-called "surf rock" genre which are the Beach Boys its greatest exponents, with catchy melodies and lyrics that spoke of beach lifestyle and carefree affluent youth.
Bob Dylan used electric guitar based folk songs, creating folk rock. I follow The Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel or Crosby, Stills and Nash. Mid 60s.
The psychedelic rock was born in California with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Love and Iron Butterfly or pop rock influenced by the hippies of The Mamas and The Papas and Association. In the UK it is assimilated by the groups of the British Invasion led by the Beatles and Revolver, Sgt Pepper's his Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour (among others). The Rolling Stones with Their Satanic Majesties Request, also there are other very innovative bands like Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jethro Tull or Soft Machine that later would lead to progressive rock. He popularized the use of the Moog synthesizer, the Mellotron and Sitar. Mid to late 60s.
In many of these groups would be a strong tendency patent blues rock, which would be great exponents like Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother & The Holding Company, three formations as well as Canned Heat. Mid to late 60s.
Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton with Cream revolutionize the way you play the guitar eléctrica.4 5 Mid to late 60s
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention would be an early sign of progressive rock and symphonic more unclassifiable and iconoclastic, where were Edgar Varese and Stravinsky, comedy, rock, and countercultural references. Mid to late 60s.

1970s

Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Blue Cheer, begin to combine elements from other musical genres and feel the roots of what would become another genre, heavy metal in the mid-'60s and early '70s.

With the album Black Sabbath Paranoid begs the creation of heavy metal.

With the Tour of The Rolling Stones 1972 American Tour begs the phrase "Drugs, Sex and Rock and Roll"

Paul Rodgers leap to fame with Free, primarily through the song "All Right Now", in the late '60s and early '70s, before forming Bad Company. The Faces, with Rod Stewart at the helm, would be another example of that classic rock rawness, somewhere between blues rock and hard rock.

The band Queen jumps to fame with a mix of hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, glam rock and rock opera. Early '70s. It also considers the single Stone Cold Crazy was the first song of Thrash metal.

Stooges, MC5 and New York Dolls, and later The Runaways, early proto punk. Late 60s and 70s.

In 1974 Punk Rock was born with one of the pioneers of the genre: Ramones. This music is characterized by being simple, usually for short duration between 1 to 2 minutes, and do not perform complicated guitar solos. Another characteristic is the protest letters to the political and social problems.

The legendary CBGB club in New York, an icon disappeared punk and new wave that saw the first performances of Ramones, The Dictators and Blondie.

Born from the funk rhythmic innovations in the soul of people like James Brown as head, The Meters in New Orleans and other artists like Sly & The Family Stone, Kool & The Gang and George Clinton bringing different perspectives to the genre. They along with Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield blaxploitation movement would result and would be essential for the subsequent development of disco and hip hop. First half of the 70s.

Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel stage Genesis, Yes, Rush and King Crimson: progressive rock and jazz rock. Pink Floyd Dark Side throw of the Moon, which would become the most successful album of the genre, also postulated as parents of space rock, Hawkwind would have on continuity. Early 70s

Emerge the glam rock artists such as T. Rex, Queen, Bowie, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper, Slade and Sweet, who joined others like Lou Reed or the Stooges. The updated glam, with provocation and makeup, the freshness of the rock and roll of the 50s against the virtuosity of progressive rock, punk influence and subsequently in all genres born from it at the end of the decade. First half of the 70s.

1980s
The neoprogresivo rock (sometimes shortened to neo-prog) is a derivative genre of progressive rock that reached its peak in the 1980s. It is characterized by emotional compositions and dark letters transmitted through a careful theatricality on stage Marillion is perhaps the most important band of the genre, whose albums Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws reached high positions in the charts. Other bands like IQ, Pendragon, Pallas, Jadis or Arena also achieved good sales at this time.
The pop rock radio format continues to show the influence of the new wave: Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, INXS, The Cars, Adam and the Ants, Billy Idol. 80 Years
Melodic Rock or Soft Rock, powerful guitar solos, along with pleasant melodies by keyboards; style led by bands like Journey, Toto, Foreigner and Boston. 80, originating in the last 70.
In the field of commercial rock and world renowned, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince reap numerous éxitos.7 August 5 Years 80.
The American rock revives thanks to Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, the latter described as "the future of rock and roll" or "the Boss". Musicians like John Cougar Mellencamp or John Hiatt stand out in style, while Joan Jett, from The Runaways, Pat Benatar and many succeed with FM rock hits, Dire Straits and Bryan Adams


Steve Lukather, Toto guitarist represented great rock era of the 80's working with several artists from different genres
continue the concept of rock radiable over the decade. 80s.
The Hard Rock 80's, also called Glam Hair metal or metal by own clothes and hairstyles of that decade, reaches its peak with bands like Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Europe, LA Guns, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Ratt, Tesla, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Warrant or White Lion among the most successful.

 1990s
Second wave of black metal along the 90 with all the controversy surrounding it, also appears Oasismania and a second invasion of bands británicas.10 was during this period when the development of black metal was evident and obvious however, the origin of the genus must be placed well before the early to mid-80s. Venom was the British who with his demo of 1979, paved the way for the wave of black metal that should venir.11 Fans were divided in opinions regarding this group, 12 who with his second album in 1982, entitled Black Metal, they named the band género.13 Other influential in establishing the foundations of the genre, were, in terms of aesthetics, Kiss, and Denmark's Mercyful Fate was released in 1982 with a four-track EP called Nuns Have No Fun .


Gaahl, lead singer of the Norwegian black metal band God Seed, and King ov Hell, bassist, at a concert in Paris in 2007
. The black metal merged with the symphonic and orchestral bands like Emperor and Dimmu Borgir later among others.
The death metal would be divided into several branches, appearing on a more raw, blunt and technical bands like Cannibal Corpse, Immolation or Dying Fetus, a more melodic In Flames, At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity, with progresismos or progressive rock Edge Of Sanity, Opeth Cynic or even mestizo jazz music bands like Cynic or Cephalic Carnage again. There is also the doom / death of Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, which would catch doom elements (or variant subgenre of heavy metal) created by Black Sabbath and Candlemass, years later with the Goth subculture mestizaría creating the gothic metal genre called .
Rock fusion. Rock, metal and punk fused with rap and funk, incorporating other elements such as progressive rock. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fishbone, Living Colour, Faith No More, Infectious Grooves, Primus and Rage Against the Machine. In Holland, would be released Urban Dance Squad. 80s - early 90s


Seattle, the birthplace of grunge.
The alternative rock and grunge revolutionize the genre following the hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana's Nevermind album. Seattle becomes the center of the rock, in addition to Nirvana, emerge as leading exponents Pearl Jam, (reborn from the ashes of the seminal Mother Love Bone), Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Blind Melon and Alice In Chains, and Hole, Afghan Whigs, and Garbage, bands that later would open the way for other more commercial cutting as Nickelback or Collective Soul. The grunge scene also influences the hard rock and hair bands virtually disappear with the new trend, noting a change in theme, the run of frivolity and fun. In the alternative rock triumph Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction at Lollapalooza thanks. 90s.
To this is added the boom comes the industrial rock and industrial metal, with bands like Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Rammstein, 90s.
The metal of the 90 starts to absorb the spirit of alternative rock; innovate Sepultura Chaos AD album and Roots, like Metallica adapt their budgets to the new decade, while Pantera unseating Michael Jackson number one on the list with an American extreme metal album called Far Beyond Driven. The 90
Surge stoner rock or desert rock, psychedelic rock fusion of the 70 with the alternative rock of the 90s, with the music of Black Sabbath, characteristic of dense dark guitar riffs and slow rhythms, using the most serious tunings of the instruments, contrasted by The Melvins and other American bands like Kyuss from California (considered founders of the style), Fu Manchu or Nebula but without commercial success of bands from Seattle and the grunge movement, the style had its continuity with bands like Queens of the Stone Age during the next decade. Mid-90s
Groups of hard rock and heavy metal with a tendency to incorporate elements of psychedelic rock and punk, as well as the culture of "Series B", begin to become popular and successful in the United States: Monster Magnet, White Zombie, and Danzig, the band former leader of The Misfits. Mid-1990s
The Black Crowes contrasted as "rare bird" in the new scene for his proposal strongly retro, and influenced by The Faces and The Rolling Stones. Throughout the 90s develop more your style to the concept of "jam-band", entrocando well with an emerging "revival 70's", supported by the staff proposal Blind Melon, who since 1992 combines alternative rock and some aspects grunge with a retro aesthetic and sound, and followed to a lesser extent, Spin Doctors and a new batch of groups influenced by Grateful Dead despuntarían in the second half of the decade, including Phish and Blues Traveller. 1990s.
This trend toward retro sounds of the 70s, with bands like Counting Crows confirm or 4 Non Blondes, would jump to fame with their two respective hits, "Mr. Jones" and "What's up" songs that would sound so insistent during rest of the decade in radiofórmulas, becoming both in reference topics of the decade. Mid-90s.
Britpop was born in the UK in the mid-90s, in response to the growing popularity of grunge invading local radio, from the hand of groups like Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, Pulp, Suede, The Verve and Placebo. Britpop influence of gender takes Madchester, indie, shoegaze, new wave and rock of the 70s and 60s. Mid-1990s.




Relevant rock bandsand singers in the 80s and 90s and their countries:

80's:
1.The Police-UK.
2.Bon Jovi-EE.UU.
3.Van Halen-EE.UU.
4.Loverboy-CAN.
5.Guns N' Roses-EE.UU.
6.Metallica-EE.UU.

90's:
1.Nirvana-EE.UU.
2.Stone Temple Pilots-EE.UU.
3.Green Day-EE.UU.
4.Oasis-UK.
5.Barenaked Ladies-CAN.
6.Goo Goo Dolls-EE.UU.