The Language Of Rock & Metal. Help!
 

Hey everyone. Im doing a research topic at university for english and I need your help. I need help answering these questions:

1. Has the language of rock and metal changed over the last forty years? i.e post-1965.Things i'm looking for can be changes in meaning (For example, does rock have a different meaning now than what it has meant in the past?). Changes in the way society looks at Rock and Metal music (For example there is now such things as christian rock, who would have thought you could associate the two together?? lol)

2. What words and terms are associated with the world of Rock and Metal? Now this is quite general so just list anything that comes to your mind. But more importantly is what kind of images do they portray or represent (For example, Tommy Lee and his body of tattoos, represents rebellion and all that kind of stuff.

Any help would be welcome and feel free to debate with others as it makes my research range wider without having to work for it:laughing:


P.S links to websites are appreciated.

you could probly write a five paragraph essay on the hand gestures of rock and metal through out the years... peace sign, "devil horns"

the metal music today is looked at the same way as it was is the 80's...people in society still just cant except it...just becasue its so out there and crazy....although it is becoming more and more popular

in my opinion- well theres a lot less emphasis on the traditional and locational forms of rock nowadays as oppose to say the 60s (bluegrass, southern rock, rockabilly, folk rock etc) and now everybody is trying to find new terms to describe new sub-movements of the recent indie phase- noise-rock, art-rock, post-rock etc. indie itself is now a mainstream antithesis of what it originally stood for- independance FROM the mainstream while punk has just branched out into all kinds of sub-genres, any band with an attitude could be tagged with the punk monica now. errrr, now its all about the guitar led pop-bands chart wise and a big electro influence is prevalent within the rock industry.

metal wise- well what do you want a list of all the sub-genres? just type into google.

I wrote a big opinion and just didn't feel like defending this fight later.

Look up the history of:
Elvis
Little Richard
Zeppelin*
Prince
Rap's influence on rock in the 90's
The New indie dance movement

*use them to focus on the thinly veiled references to sex such as the lemon juice running down his leg.

Cheers guys, i had bin doing a bit of hunting around before hand and then i thought the forums are bound to have people with heaps of memories from earlier times of rock and metal history so i thought why not ask. So thanks a heap :beer:

Ummmm........Rock & Roll was slang for Sex. That might help for word meanings.

peolpe from past generations think the new generations is to wild and out there also rock started as on genra and now theirs at least five major sub genra