Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources.
Musically, rock has centred around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music with a 4/4 beat utilizing a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music. Unlike pop music, rock places an emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity. (wikipedia)
Conventions of Rock music videos
* Instruments - mainly guitar
* Performance
* All about the song
* Minimal Mise - en - scene
Kings of Leon - Sex is on fire
POP MUSIC
Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rockstyle.
"Pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged"
Conventions of Pop music videos
* All about artist image
* Videos have a polished look.....usually fantasy or scenarios that lack mundane realism
* Intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms with dance routines in videos
Britney Spears - Baby one more time
GIRL BANDS
Here are some pictures and videos of prominent girl bands in the rock/pop/ punk genre.
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