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English
Etymology
Shortening of rock and roll music, in use since circa 1966 to refer to genres of popular music which had grown sufficiently distinct from 1950s rock and roll.
Noun
rock music (uncountable)
- (music) A broad genre of popular music, including especially those styles ultimately derived from rock and roll, employing electrical amplification, heavy use of guitars, 4/4 time with strong percussive rhythm on beats two and four (backbeat), and usually themes of bold wildness, rebellion, and sexuality.
Synonyms
Translations
popular music genre
- Afrikaans: rockmusiek
- Arabic: مُوسِيقَى الرُّوك f (mūsīqā r-rūk), رُوك m (rūk), رُوك m (rok)
- Armenian: ռոք (hy) (ṙokʻ)
- Asturian: rock (ast)
- Azerbaijani: rok (az)
- Bashkir: рок (rok)
- Belarusian: рок-музыка f (rók-muzyka)
- Bengali: রক সঙ্গীত (rok śoṅgit)
- Breton: sonerezh rock
- Bulgarian: рок музика f (rok muzika)
- Carpathian Rusyn: рок-му́зика f (rok-múzyka)
- Catalan: música rock f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 搖滾音樂 / 摇滚音乐 (zh) (yáogǔn yīnyuè), 搖滾樂 / 摇滚乐 (zh) (yáogǔnyuè)
- Chuvash: рок-мусӑк (rok-mus̬ăk)
- Czech: rock (cs) m
- Danish: rock (da)
- Dutch: rockmuziek (nl) f
- Esperanto: rokmuziko, roko, rok-muziko
- Estonian: rokk (et), rokkmuusika
- Finnish: rokki (fi)
- French: rock (fr) m, musique rock f
- Galician: música rock f
- Georgian: როკ-მუსიკა (roḳ-musiḳa)
- German: Rockmusik (de) f
- Greek: ροκ μουσική (rok mousikí)
- Hebrew: מוזיקת רוק
- Hindi: रॉक संगीत (rŏk saṅgīt)
- Hungarian: rockzene (hu), rock (hu)
- Icelandic: rokk (is) n
- Ido: rock (io)
- Indonesian: musik rok (id)
- Interlingua: rock
- Irish: rac-cheol m
- Italian: rock (it) m
- Jamaican Creole: rak myuuzik
- Japanese: ロック音楽 (rokku-ongaku), ロック (ja) (rokku)
- Korean: 락 음악 (rak eumak), 락 (ko) (rak)
- Latin: (New Latin) rockiana f, rociana f, rockianus m, rocianus m, musica rock f
- Latvian: rokmūzika f
- Lithuanian: rokas m
- Luxembourgish: Rockmusek f
- Macedonian: рок-музика f (rok-muzika)
- Malay: muzik rock
- Malayalam: റോക്ക് (ṟōkkŭ)
- Marathi: रॉक संगीत n (rŏk saṅgīt)
- Mongolian: hок хөгжим (hok xögžim)
- Nepali: रक सङ्गीत (rak saṅgīt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rockemusikk m
- Nynorsk: rockemusikk m
- Persian: راک (fa), موسیقی راک
- Polish: rock (pl) m
- Portuguese: rock (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਰੌਕ ਸੰਗੀਤ (rauk saṅgīt)
- Romanian: muzică rock f
- Russian: рок-му́зыка (ru) f (rok-múzyka), рок (ru) m (rok)
- Scottish Gaelic: roc
- Sinhalese: රොක් සංගීතය (rok saṁgītaya)
- Slovak: rock m
- Slovene: rock (sl) m
- Swedish: rockmusik (sv)
- Tamil: ராக் இசை (rāk icai)
- Thai: ร็อก (rɔ́k)
- Turkish: rock müzik
- Ukrainian: рок-музика f (rok-muzyka)
- Urdu: راک موسیقی (rāk moseqī)
- Uzbek: rok-musiqa
- Vietnamese: nhạc rock, rock (vi)
- Welsh: cerddoriaeth roc f
- West Flemish: rockmuziek f
- West Frisian: rockmuzyk c or n
- Western Panjabi: روک موسیقی (rok moseqī)
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References
- 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 347.
