Genre research

Genre Research

What genre are you basing your magazine on?
I am going to base my magazine on the rock genre much like Kerrang, this is because it is my preferred music choice. Also I feel as though there is a wider range of ideas that I can create and I also feel as though it would look more effective, especially due to the conventional colours (white, black, red and orange) and style of a rock magazine.

The brief history of the rock genre has developed greatly over the years.
Rock encompasses many styles, which helps keep the music from ever running the risk of growing stale.
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 Kingdom and the United States.^[1][2][3] 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 centred on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. 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"^[1] or "classic rock"^[2] period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock, which was influenced by the counter cultural psychedelic scene. New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements; glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style; and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasised 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 characterised 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, Brit pop, and indie rock. Further fusion sub-genres 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 synth pop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.

Currently in the charts for rock music are artists such as, You me at six. They are becoming increasingly popular. There is also The darkness, Bullet for my valentine and many more.
The magazines that focus on this genre are, Kerrang, obviously. There is also classic rock, rock sound and more.

Here are some music videos (HERE) so you have a n idea of the music and the videos which they create.

The costume that rock artists often use are generally very fashionable and most often black. It has become increasingly common for them to have piercings and tattoos, especially sleeve tattoos.