Rock timeline

1950's - The fifties bring the birth of Rock and Roll with rhythm and blues, country and gospel music fusing together in Rock 'n Roll, Doo Wop, Rockabilly and the beginnings of Soul. With early hits first appearing on the R&B charts and then moving to the pop charts by the latter half of the decade. Pioneering rock music artists Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and many more take the rock music sound and influence worldwide. 1960's - In the sixties rock music takes over the pop charts for the first time. A wide variety of new rock genres emerge, including surf music, folk music, Motown, Stax, the British Invasion, psychedelic, hard rock and heavy metal. Groups like the Supremes, The Temptations, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin and solo artists Dick Dale, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix are successful. Album sales become as important as hit singles late in the decade. 1970's - By the seventies the album has become more important than the single. Concerts have moved from clubs and halls, to stadiums. Heavy metal, folk rock, progressive rock, funk and glitter rock, are followed by disco and punk rock. Major players include Led Zeppelin, Yes, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, T.Rex, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, James Taylor, Carole King, Kiss, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Chic, Donna Summer, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, & The Clash. 1980's - In the eighties CD's replace albums and tapes. MTV and music videos become influential. Dominant artists include U2, Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, The Go'Go's, Phil Collins, Human League, Flock of Seagulls, INXS, Journey, Dire Straits, Foreigner, Billy Joel, Guns & Roses, and Motley Crue. New rock music styles such as synthpop, new wave, hardcore, speed metal, hair metal, the new british invasion, and rap come to the forefront. 1990's - In the nineties rock music continues to evolve with grunge, alternative, industrial, house, hip hop, techno and trance music becoming popular rock music forms. Rock bands like Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Blues Traveler, Phish, and Beck sell side by side with the more pop oriented sounds of Whitney Houston, En Vogue, NSYNC, TLC, Maria Carey and Britney Spears and the rap / hip hop of Public Enemy, NWA, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Ice-T, Cypress Hill, Nas, Tupac Shakur and many more. While it might be impossible to answer that question with certainty, the typical answers are Bill Haley, Little Richard, Elvis Presley and, of course, Chuck Berry. While I concede that these men and others like Johnnie Johnson, definitely contributed to the care and feeding of Rock and Roll, I disagree that any of them were present during its conception.I say, if you are looking for the Father of Rock and Roll, stop looking at the 1950's and take a gander at the 1940's. If you take my suggestion to heart, you just might stumble upon Lester William Polsfuss. You and I know him as Les Paul In the early 1950's new recording technologies such as the 45 RPM single, the 33 and 1/3 RPM long playing album, 45 RPM jukeboxes, along with solid body electric guitars, and electric bass guitars emerge. The rapid adaptation of these new technologies change the way people create and listen to music. 1950s genre Rhythm & Blues: Fats Domino, Little Richard, Professor Longhair, Johnny Otis, Hank Ballard, Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, The Clovers, The Platters, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Lloyd Price, The Dominoes, Bill Black, Johnny Ace, BB King, The Drifters Pre-Rock / Pop: Doris Day, Mitch Miller, Percy Faith, Nat King Cole, Frankie Laine, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Eddie Fisher, The Four Aces, Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney,Jo Stafford, Kay Starr, Dean Martin, Pat Boone Folk Revival: Pete Seeger, The Weavers, The Kingston Trio, Guy Mitchell, Odetta, Harry Belafonte, The Brothers Four, Chad Mitchell Trio Doo Wop: The Orioles, The Charms, The Clovers, The Penguins, The Crows, The Five Satins, The Moonglows, The Del-Vikings, The Diamonds, Frankie Lymon& The Teenagers Rock & Roll / Rockabilly: Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Bill Haley & His Comets, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Burnette& The Rock n' Roll Trio, Wanda Jackson, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Cash Teen Idols: Ricky Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Paul Anka, Dion, Annette Funicello Jazz: Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus

Genres 2.history o o o 2.1 Rock and roll 2.2 "In-between years" 2.3 Surf music

3 Golden age o 3.1 British Invasion o 3.2 Garage rock o 3.3 Pop rock o 3.4 Blues rock o 3.5 Folk rock o 3.6 Psychedelic rock 4 Progression o 4.1 Roots rock o 4.2 Progressive rock o 4.3 Jazz rock o 4.4 Glam rock o 4.5 Soft rock, hard rock and early heavy metal o 4.6 Christian rock 5 Punk o 5.1 Punk rock o 5.2 New Wave o 5.3 Post-punk o 5.4 New waves and genres in heavy metal o 5.5 Heartland rock o 5.6 Emergence of alternative rock 6 Alternative o 6.1 Grunge o 6.2 Britpop o 6.3 Post-grunge o 6.4 Pop punk o 6.5 Indie rock o 6.6 Alternative metal, rap rock and nu metal o 6.7 Post-Britpop 7 2000s o 7.1 Post-hardcore and emo o 7.2 Garage rock/post-punk revival o 7.3 Contemporary heavy metal, metalcore and retro-metal o 7.4 Digital electronic rock

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Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United [1][2][3] Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources. Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock groupwith bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature utilizing a versechorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music. Rock places a higher degree of emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music. By the late 1960s, referred to as the "golden age" or "classic rock" period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, rock, country, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic influenced by the countercultural psychedelic scene. New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements; glam, which highlighted showmanship and visual style; and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other sub-genres, including New Wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement. From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including the garage rock/post-punk and synchrevivals at the beginning of the new millennium. Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and thehippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures. Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.
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William Gilbert

15441603 English

hypothesized that the Earth is a giant magnet

Galileo Galilei

15641642 Italian

performed fundamental observations, experiments, and mathematical analyses in astronomy and physics; discovered mountains and craters on the moon, the phases of Venus, and the four largest satellites of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede

Willebrod Snell

15801626 Dutch 16231662 French 16291695 Dutch 16351703 English 16431727 English

discovered law of refraction (Snell's law)

Blaise Pascal

discovered that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished to every part of the fluid and to the walls of its container (Pascal's principle)

Christiaan Huygens

proposed a simple geometrical wave theory of light, now known as ``Huygen's principle''; pioneered use of the pendulum in clocks

Robert Hooke

discovered Hooke's law of elasticity

Sir Isaac Newton

developed theories of gravitation and mechanics, and invented differential calculus