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I'd say that Rock n' Roll hasn't faded, nor will it ever do so.
There is a lot of Rock still out there, but its been broken into various different entities. Alt rock, soft rock, classic rock, grunge rock, etc.
The same thing is happening with rap. It used to be only three or four main rap groups. Now rap artists have ventured into other parts of the music world, and it'll be broken down just like rock was.
But it's faded in popularity. 20-45 years ago the top rock bands were household names that just about all Americans were familiar with. Today there are many rock bands that are popular with rock fans that are basically unknown outside of the rock subculture.
It's always been that way, though.
If it's not part of the Top 100 billboards, then it's unknown to the public.
My particular brand of music comprises of The Protomen, Muse, Sonata Arctica, Abney Park, Kamelot, Within Temptation, The Gathering, and Lacuna Coil.
Only 2 of those bands could be feasibly known by the general public. One because she toured with Ozzy, the other because of Guitar Hero.
Now, what is Cow-punk?? I've heard of Punk-Rocker..........
I think I'm showing my age,......... this girl is just plain "Rock" what they now call Classic!!
Actually... Cowpunk has been around since the late 70's around the time that rockabilly was starting to make a commercial comeback. Think twangy Hank Williams meets the sex pistols. I played in a cowpunk/psychobilly band for a while and boy was it fun
As for hip hop, basically none of my friends listen to it as a genre and I'm 27. I suppose it all kinda starts sounding the same after a while musically which is why I don't listen to it, except maybe sparingly. Will it fade? Probably, but it will most definitely evolve into something new, just as rock has done.
When I think of Rock 'n' Roll I think of old school delta blues migrating and modernizing to the electric guitar. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Cream, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and so on. Basically music that was highly based on the pentatonic scale.
Now I think most people think of modern mainstream rock as ''Rock''.
If modern rap died, I wouldn't complain. I do like some old school hip hop.
Hip hop is the dominant music of the culture nowadays. It aint going anywhere. Even music that you don't think of as being hip hop is still hip hop or at a minimum, hip hop influenced.
Hip hop was shot out of the same cannon that every other popular musical form came out of. Rock isn't dead either...and it never will be.
And just like great rock and roll stars like Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Eric Clapton or John Lennon will be lionized 100 years from now, so will RUN-DMC.
Will hip hop fade away like rock & roll? Or can hip hop survive?
When did Rock N'Roll fade away?
What music does is that it is constantly evolving. Styles and genres blend into new music types. It's been this way since the beginning of music.
No music style ever fades away, it just changes into something new.
I still listen to classical music - Bach, Telemann, Schubert and Vivaldi aren't going anywhere, so why should Rock n'Roll or Hip Hop/Rap?
Music is like fashion, there's still a lot of classic styles that stick around, they get remade and reworked into something different and modern all the time.
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Now, what is Cow-punk?? I've heard of Punk-Rocker..........
......... this girl is just plain "Rock" what they now call Classic!!
