CULTURAL MIXING AS A MAJOR FEATURE OF ROCK MUSIC
CULTURAL MIXING AS A MAJOR FEATURE OF ROCK MUSIC

Summary/Abstract: Rock music has since the start been a “genre” that subsumes other genres in a play of décentrage, between a centrifugal movement of expansion and research, and a centripetal movement of céntrage, useful for its recognition as a genre. Furthermore, with improvisation as one of its main features, “each moment becomes unrepeatable, it can depend on the preceding moment but not on the subsequent one, it is central, equal to every other, essential but not indispensable”, therefore marked by a broad creativity of the player and the use of electric instruments. It may be interesting to show the process that leads from the original meeting of a few genres to an increasingly significant expansion. Rock music loves the mixing of genres, not their singularity and recognisability. In a sociological perspective, such fusion is very useful for understanding changes, especially with a younger audience whose rigid division is fading: rock is the first musical genre capable of unifying the tastes of young people, beyond class differences and social backgrounds. Rock music is always looking for new sounds, which are distinguished into two broad strains: the United States sound and the European sound, with a British prevalence, but present in every country. British-American rock music broadcast worldwide has stimulated the development of local versions, and the countries that adopt and appropriate it use their own “language” and culture.

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