Rock Music Timeline is an online chronology of the first fifty years of rock music history illustrated with vintage photographs of the musicians, key events, chart positions, hit singles and albums year by year.

Feb 11, 2017 · Read this history of music and find a timeline of milestones in the music industry, dating from 325 to the present day ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum opens in Cleveland. Renowned architect I. M. Pei designed the ultra-modern, 150,000 square-foot building. Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia dies.

May 13, 2022 · Origins. The origins of pop music can be found in a variety of different musical styles, including the jazzy piano melodies of ragtime, …

Oct 12, 2021 · Based on the music of both the Greeks and Romans, Western music was created. Learn about what Western music is, the history of it, and the six historical eras in Western culture.

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Mar 01, 1998 · Rock-and-Roll (räk'n roll') n. first so used (1951) by Alan Freed, Cleveland disc jockey, taken from the song "My Baby Rocks Me with a Steady Roll". The use of rock, roll, rock and roll, etc., with reference to sexual intercourse, is traditional in blues, a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950's from rhythm and blues, characterized ...

Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music (e.g., the history of Indian music or the history of rock).In practice, these research topics are often categorized as …

Like much of Scandinavia (or, more accurately Fennoscandia), Finland's main contribution to modern popular music may be heavy metal and related fields. Early 80s Finnish hard rock and heavy metal bands of note include Riff Raff, Oz, and Zero Nine while Stratovarius and thrashers Stone would first emerge in the late 80s. Since then the Finnish scene has given rise to bands …

Apr 18, 2019 · Look at any rock history retrospective, and it will list at number one Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” as the most important song of the 1990s. As the nation was awash in New Jack Swing and the last gasps of hair metal, the three-chord distortion of “Teen Spirit” blew it all to smithereens.

Ragtime emerged in the 1880s as an improvised form of piano music and became widely popular in the mainstream. The music’s danceable rhythms, familiar harmonies and the ABA form caught the attention of whites, especially the middle class. Printed versions became in demand in the 1890s, prompting transcribers to simplify its complex rhythms.