What IS Rock Music?!

Here’s video one of two, looking at rock music generally, asking ‘what is it?’ (harder to answer than you might think), and ‘is rock music dead’?

I’ve made a couple videos looking at genre before, and I thought I should look at rock music as a whole - we can all recognise a rock band when we hear (or see) one, but I wanted to go a little deeper and see what really makes the style tick. Whether I’ve done it successively, only you can say!

Lots of people - from Rick Beato, to the founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, to rock stars like Roger Daltrey and Gene Simmons - have lamented the death of rock music. But is it actually accurate or fair to say that it is dead? What would it even mean to say that it is dead?

I’m not sure if I do manage to answer all these questions in my videos, but I have tried! Part two out soon

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