Music genre research

The genre I have chose to base my music magazine around is rock. Within rock there are many sub genres such as metal, pop and scream. I have decided to chose pop rock as it goes out to a wider target audience. This will result in more people being able to read my magazine.

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated from 'rock and roll' in the United States in the 1950's. Rock was heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock was also lightly influenced by genre's such as blues and folk and incorporated influences jazz, classical and other music genres.

Within the music industry, rock is seen as one of the biggest genres as within rock there are many smaller genres, e.g indie rock and pop rock. Throughout the year there are festivals/concerts which only have rock music. An example of this is Download Festival, the fact that rock has its own festival shows it is a big genre within the music industry.