• Brass & Military

• Children's

• Classical and art music

traditions

• Electronic

• Breakbeat

• Drum and bass

• Electro

• Eurodance

• Hardcore

• Hi-NRG

• House

• Industrial

• Techno

• Trance

• Trip hop

• UK garage

• Folk

• Religious

• Stage & Screen

• Music Hall

• Musical

• Soundtrack

• Country

• Electronic

• Hip hop

• Jazz

• Latin

• Pop

• Reggae

• R&B

• Rock

• Mojo, rock and pop genre.

• The Fly, Closed Down.

• Uncut, Americana, rock and alternative country.

• Kerrang, rock and classic rock.

• New Musical Express, Punk rock.

• Classic Rock, classic rock.

• Metal Hammer, Heavy metal.

• Mixmag, dance music and club culture.

• Word, Closed Down

Artists often wear dark clothes, messy hairstyles, piercing,

tattoos, make-up and dark eye liner. Artists will normally be in

band and the main instruments are guitars and drums.

• Kerrang

• Q

• Mojo

These magazines do have the rock features above like tattoos,

piercing, black stylish hair, black clothing showing the

audiences what type of genre they’re presenting towards

them.

Main Genre

The target audience for rock is such a large variety of people with

millions of different people enjoying the main genre of music, the

audience of rock music is psychographic people.

The target audience for rock is such a large variety of people with

millions of different people enjoying the main genre of music, the

audience of rock music is psychographic people.

Rock music first originated as Rock ‘N’ Roll in America in the 1950’s and

then started to originate into more themes into the 1960’s majority

through the United Kingdom and America. It was influenced a lot by

rhythms and blue and also country music. The genre also grew with new

type of rock genres like blue and folk which were influenced by jazz,

classical and other musical resources.

• Some key artists to rock music are known today as Chuck

Berry and Bo Diddey. Chuck Berry’s real name is Charles

Edward Anderson who was born on the 18th October 1926

was an American Guitarist, singer and song writer and also

one of the pioneers of the rock ‘n’ roll industry. He dominated

the 1950’s releasing well-known songs like "Maybellene”, "Roll

Over Beethoven” & “Rock and Roll Music” he helped create

the massive increase in rock fans and was a icon for many

different people.

• Bo Diddey’s real name was Ellas Othas Bate who was born in

December 30th 1928 who sadly passed away in 2008. He was

also American like Chuck Berry and was a R&B vocalist,

guitarist and songwriter. He was also known as the originator

because of his key roles from blue to rock n roll and also rock

influencing loads of different people into these types of

music.

Rock is a very popular type of music with the public with millions of

people listening to the different types of music the genre has to other

with loads of different types of rock music available for people to listen

to. I would say that there is a large mainstream appeal to rock music

because there are a lot of popular rock magazines like Q, Mojo and

Kerrang. For example Q has a circulation view 48,353 people on

average with every issue sold and a readership total of 339,000 people

per copy showing how popular rock is with other magazine like Kerrang

which has a similar total to how many people are buying their

magazines.

Nirvana is an American rock band that released a lot of albums and

tracks that helped them become well-known rock group nation wide.

These are good examples of the record labels for nirvana: Sub pop,

Geffen records and DGC records.

There are lots of different rock stations, one rock station though is called

Planet Rock, this ‘planet rock’ station also has it’s own website

(http://www.planetrock.com/win/win-planet-rockstock-roadie-for-the-

day/) showing that it is trying to help promote and show their type of

music to people In a number of different ways.