page_title: Rock music
section_title: Social impact
hierarchical_section_title: Rock music / Social impact
caption_attribution_description: English: Two hippies at the Woodstock Festival Deutsch: Zwei Hippies beim Woodstock Festival Français&#160;: voir aussi Hair de Milos Forman. 日本語: ヒッピー・スタイルの入場者達. アメリカのヒッピー. Português: Hippies. Hippies. Hippies. Español: En el festival de Woodstock, más allá del fenómeno musical, se visualizó un nuevo tipo de comportamiento social atractivo para muchos jóvenes, que rompía las convencionalismos tradicionales: liberación sexual, convivencia interracial, utilización de drogas, desprecio de la ética del trabajo. Svenska: Två hippies under Woodstockfestivalen. Italiano: Due hippies durante il concerto di Woodstock, apice di un nuovo tipo di comportamente sociale alternativo per molti giovani, che ha rotto i convenzionalismi tradizionali: liberazione del sesso, convivenza interrazziale, utilizzo di stupefacenti e disprezzo dell'etica del lavoro. 中文: 嬉皮. Suomi: Kaksi hippiä Woodstockissa elokuussa 1969. Esperanto: Du hipioj dum la Woodstock-festivalo. Slovenčina: Dvaja hippies na festivale. Čeština: Dva hippies na festivalu. Українська: Двоє гіпі на фестивалі у Вудстоці. עברית: היפים בפסטיבל וודסטוק. היפים בפסטיבל. היפים בפסטיבל וודסטוק. Lietuvių: Hipiai festivalyje. Српски / srpski: Hipici na Vudstoku 1969. Norsk nynorsk: Menneske søkjer gjerne saman i grupper. Simple English: Hippies at the festival. Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Hipici na Vudstoku 1969.
context_page_description: Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily from the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music 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.
context_section_description: Different subgenres of rock were adopted by, and became central to, the identity of a large number of sub-cultures. In the 1950s and 1960s, respectively, British youths adopted the Teddy Boy and Rocker subcultures, which revolved around US rock and roll. The counterculture of the 1960s was closely associated with psychedelic rock. The mid-late 1970s punk subculture began in the US, but it was given a distinctive look by British designer Vivienne Westwood, a look which spread worldwide. Out of the punk scene, the Goth and Emo subcultures grew, both of which presented distinctive visual styles.
  When an international rock culture developed, it supplanted cinema as the major sources of fashion influence. Paradoxically, followers of rock music have often mistrusted the world of fashion, which has been seen as elevating image above substance. Rock fashions have been seen as combining elements of different cultures and periods, as well as expressing divergent views on sexuality and gender, and rock music in general has been noted and criticised for facilitating greater sexual freedom. Rock has also been associated with various forms of drug use, including the amphetamines taken by mods in the early to mid-1960s, through the LSD, mescaline, hashish and other hallucinogenic drugs linked with psychedelic rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s; and sometimes to cannabis, cocaine and heroin, all of which have been eulogised in song.
  Rock has been credited with changing attitudes to race by opening up African-American culture to white audiences; but at the same time, rock has been accused of appropriating and exploiting that culture. While rock music has absorbed many influences and introduced Western audiences to different musical traditions, the global spread of rock music has been interpreted as a form of cultural imperialism. Rock music inherited the folk tradition of protest song, making political statements on subjects such as war, religion, poverty, civil rights, justice and the environment. Political activism reached a mainstream peak with the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single (1984) and Live Aid concert for Ethiopia in 1985, which, while successfully raising awareness of world poverty and funds for aid, have also been criticised (along with similar events), for providing a stage for self-aggrandisement and increased profits for the rock stars involved.
  Since its early development rock music has been associated with rebellion against social and political norms, most obviously in early rock and roll's rejection of an adult-dominated culture, the counterculture's rejection of consumerism and conformity and punk's rejection of all forms of social convention, however, it can also be seen as providing a means of commercial exploitation of such ideas and of diverting youth away from political action.
caption: The 1969 Woodstock Festival was seen as a celebration of the countercultural lifestyle.
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