Rock
Rock (originally, "rock and roll") is a genre of music that was pioneered in the '40s and early '50s by musicians that borrowed from & electrified blues, folk, and other popular musics of the time.
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Rock, especially in its early days, is/was largely defined by verse-chorus song form, a focus on the electric guitar & distortion, a metronomic back beat from the drummer, and a harmonic & melodic language inherited from blues, R&B, folk, and country music.
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