Rock: In reality, just a generic term. Discuss.
I've been thinking more and more about this lately:
Taking into consideration the ENTIRE proliferation of styles and sub-genres that ultimately fall under the umbrella term "rock music", when all's said and done, there really is nothing at all that qualifies a popular music form as being "rock", other than that it doesn't fall under either Jazz, Urban, Country, Blues, Electronica, Avant-Garde, Folk, Gospel, Reggae, or any other type of well-defined World music.
To state the case a little clearer; while those other aforementioned, widely recognized popular music genres are pretty well-defined in terms of musical characteristics, it's much harder, impossible even, to define "rock" music based on purely musical grounds.
Ultimately I see rock as just a generic term.
Discuss.
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