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.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑk ˈmjuzɪk/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒk ˈmjuːzɪk/
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), rok musiqisi
- Bashkir: рок (rok)
- Belarusian: рок-му́зыка f (rok-múzyka)
- Bengali: রক সঙ্গীত (rok śoṅgit)
- Breton: sonerezh rock
- Bulgarian: рок му́зика f (rok múzika)
- Burmese: ရော့ခ်ဂီတ (rauhk.gita.)
- 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) c
- Dutch: rockmuziek (nl) f
- Esperanto: rokmuziko, roko, rok-muziko
- Estonian: rokk (et), rokkmuusika
- Finnish: rokki (fi)
- French: rock (fr) m, musique rock f
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: rockmuzyk c or n
- Galician: música rock f
- Georgian: როკ-მუსიკა (roḳ-musiḳa)
- German: Rockmusik (de) f
- Greek: ροκ μουσική f (rok mousikí)
- Hebrew: מוזיקת רוק f (múzikat rok)
- Hindi: रॉक m (rŏk)
- 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 (ロックおんがく, rokku ongaku), ロック (ja) (rokku)
- Kazakh: рок-музыка (rok-muzyka)
- 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, roks m
- 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:
- Cyrillic: рок хөгжим (rok xögžim)
- Nepali: रक सङ्गीत (rak saṅgīt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rockemusikk m
- Nynorsk: rockemusikk m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: موسیقیِ راک (musiġi-ye râk), راک (fa) (râk)
- Polish: rock (pl) m
- Portuguese: rock (pt) m
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਰੌਕ ਸੰਗੀਤ (rauk saṅgīt)
- Western Punjabi: روک مُوسِیقِی (rok mūsīqī)
- Romanian: muzică rock f
- Russian: рок-му́зыка (ru) f (rok-múzyka), рок (ru) m (rok)
- Scottish Gaelic: roc
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: рок глазба f, рок музика f, рок m
- Sinhalese: රොක් සංගීතය (rok saṁgītaya)
- Slovak: rock m, rok (sk) m
- Slovene: rock (sl) m
- Swedish: rockmusik (sv) c
- Tamil: ராக் இசை (rāk icai)
- Thai: ร็อก (rɔ́k), เพลงร็อก
- Turkish: rock müzik
- Ukrainian: рок-му́зика f (rok-múzyka)
- Urdu: راک مُوسِیقِی f (rāk mūsīqī)
- Uzbek: rok-musiqa
- Vietnamese: nhạc rock, rock (vi)
- Welsh: cerddoriaeth roc f
- West Flemish: rockmuziek f
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References
- 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 347.