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For some years now, there has been talk that rock is dead. But is it really? We spoke with experts on the subject and this is what they told us about it

When rock began to sound in the 1950s, Frank Sinatra - one of the most important singers in the history of music - said that it was made by "deficient who sing malicious, lewd lyrics." But no one could stop rock anymore: several bands emerged that reached popularity charts and filled stadiums, such as The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. Something like what is happening today with reggaeton.

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Location: Roskilde, Denmark
Date: First week of July
After Glastonbury, this is (perhaps) the largest and most diverse festival on the entire European continent with 4 days of duration and spectacular as well as peculiar settings.

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Place: Barcelona, ​​Spain
Date: Last week of May
During the past decade, this festival gradually consolidated itself as the most important international music festival in Spain with 4 days of duration and more than 5 stages, being able to host more than a hundred bands and attract tens of thousands of music enthusiasts. Any part of the world.

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Rock Werchter
Location: Werchter, Belgium
Date: Last week of June
This festival has received the award for the best festival of the year on several occasions by the Arthur Awards and they host the biggest and current acts for 4 days on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium.

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James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet, best known for being the lead singer of the rock band The Doors.

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Michael Philip Jagger, known professionally as Mick Jagger, is a British singer, songwriter, musician and actor, recognized for being the lead singer of the rock band The Rolling Stones.

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Paul David Hewson KBE better known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish musician, known for being the lead singer of the rock group U2 and political activist

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Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter, pianist, graphic designer, and musician of Parsi and Indian origin, known for having been the lead vocalist for the rock band Queen.

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Robert Anthony Plant

  is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known for having been the lead singer of the rock band Led Zeppelin from its founding until their separation in 1980.

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The structure

In its beginnings, and throughout its history with modifications, the structure of rock has certain characteristics that marked its style.

Thus this musical genre is based on a type of short verses, based on a few chords, which are distributed between the verses and the chorus with a constant rhythm.

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The incorporation of instrumental solos in the songs stands out, replacing the sung phrases in certain stanzas.

The theme

One of the characteristics of rock is to explicitly reflect other realities such as sex, war, vices and death, among others.

In turn, rock also brought a great self-referential sense to his lyrics, with many artists sharing their intimacies within the scene.

Social criticism was also the order of the day. Thus, rock collected many of the facts and concerns of contemporary societies.

Amplification

One of the central features in the appearance of rock was the electronic evolution allowed by the amplification systems that marked the beginning of the genre.

Likewise, the presence of microphones for voices and other instruments indicated a new path in the way of making and listening to music.

Band formation

The conformation of rock bands is characterized by the presence of three central instruments, in addition to the voices: the guitar, the bass and the drums.

However, other instruments can be added, mainly the piano or the wind instruments. With this musical conception, a melodic simplification was carried out and the concept of the big band was put aside.

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Rock is a broad term that groups together a variety of genres of popular music that originated as rock and roll in the early 1950s in the United States and evolved into a wide range of different styles in the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. United States.1 It has its roots in the rock and roll of the 40s and 50s, coming from the combination of previous genres such as blues, rhythm and blues and country.

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Rock and roll as such, has its origins between 1920 and 1940, however, elements of this genre can be observed in rhythm and blues productions that even date back to the 1920s. In the origins of rock and roll there was a combination of elements the blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm.