Contents / phases rock music

1. Characteristics

2. Background (1950s–early 1960s)

2.1 Rock and roll

2.2 The "in-between years"

2.3 Surf music

3. Emergence (mid- to late 1960s)

3.1 The British Invasion

3.2 Garage rock

3.3 Pop rock

3.4 Blues-rock

3.5 Folk rock

3.6 Psychedelic rock

4. Progression (late 1960s to mid-1970s)

4.1 Roots rock

4.2 Progressive rock

4.3 Jazz rock

4.4 Glam rock

4.5 Soft rock, hard rock and early heavy metal

4.6 Christian rock

5. Punk and its aftermath (mid-1970s to the 1980s)

5.1 Punk rock

5.2 New Wave

5.3 Post-punk

5.4 New waves and genres in heavy metal

5.5 Heartland rock

5.6 The emergence of alternative rock

6. Alternative goes mainstream (the 1990s)

6.1 Grunge

6.2 Britpop

6.3 Post-grunge

6.4 Pop punk

6.5 Indie rock

6.6 Alternative metal, rap rock and nu metal

6.7 Post-Britpop

7. The new millennium (the 2000s)

7.1 Emo

7.2 Garage rock/post-punk revival

7.3 Contemporary heavy metal, metalcore and retro metal

7.4 Digital electronic rock