rock music

popular music genre
Class type of: popular music Q11399
rock music
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Facts

15 properties
Instance of
music genre
Inception
1948[5]
Subclass of
popular music
Short name
рок, rock, Rock[9][10]
Described by source
DDEX AVS Data Dictionary Version 1[6]
Different from
Rock[11]
Has characteristic
rock music award[8]
Hashtag
Rock[15]
Practiced by
rock musician, rock drummer, rock band[16][17][18]
Social media followers
+108332
Topic has template
Template:Rock music[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en rock music en rock and roll en rock en rock 'n roll ar روك أند رول ar موسيقى الروك cs rocková hudba cs rock music de Rockmusik de Rock and Roll de Rock el rock and roll el ροκ μουσική el ροκ es rock and roll fa موسیقی راک fa راک fi rock-musiikki fi rockmusiikki fr rock 'n roll
🔖 Identifiers · 71
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85114675
GND ID
4115774-6
OpenAlex ID
C2993072449
ABC News topic ID
rock
AllMusic genre/style ID
ma0000002613
AniDB tag ID
4785
Archive of Our Own tag
Rock Music RPF
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/7932
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
3066
BNCF Thesaurus ID
10616
BabelNet ID
00068049n
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119323761
DR topic ID
pop-og-rock
Dewey Decimal Classification
781.66
Discogs genre ID
rock
Encyclopedia of Ideas ID
rock
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/rock-music
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
rock-and-roll
Equivalent class
service.ddex.net
Every Noise at Once ID
rock
Exact match
service.ddex.net
Freebase ID
/m/06by7
GTAA ID
262872
Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID
2512
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3513625
Harper's tag
rock-music
IAB code
363
IFLA value vocabularies ID
fom#rc
IMDb keyword
rock-music
ITunes genre ID (archived)
8.0k (21–8.0k, n=3)
IdRef ID
027238032
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
rock-music
KBpedia ID
RockMusic
Klexikon article ID
Rockmusik
Last.fm ID
../tag/rock
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
2662
Lex ID
rock
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014027054
Lille norske leksikon ID
rock
Museum-digital tag ID
2366
NL CR AUT ID
ph125174
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541224305171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX527963
PSH ID
11878
Quora topic ID
Rock-Music
Rate Your Music genre ID
rock
Reddit topic ID
rock_music
SVKKL authority ID
h0005079-rock
SoundCloud ID
tags/rock
Subreddit
rock, rockmusic
The Top Tens ID
9451
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Rock music
Topic's main category
Category:Rock music
Treccani ID
rock
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10644564
Vikidia article ID
es:Rock
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
rokas
Wellcome Collection concept ID
r3qr8467
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07078755-n
X (Twitter) topic ID
806571747730341888
YSO ID
1882
Yandex Music genre ID
allrock, rock
Yle topic ID
18-206883
Zhihu topic ID
19550714

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← Field of work 157
Subtypes 62
← Main subject 12
← Category combines topics 8
Named after 5
Country of origin 2
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Created notable works 1
Different from 1
Has these parts 1
Influenced 1
Instance of 1
Practiced by 1
Subclass of 1
Topic has template 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
← Based on 1
← Category contains 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Different from 1
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Summary

rock music is a music genre[1]. It is a type of popular music[2].

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Influence

Things named for rock music include Live Aid[21], a benefit concert[22], in United States[23], founded in 1984[24]; Rock Me Amadeus[25], a musical work/composition[26]; rock opera[27], a music genre[28], founded in 1967[29]; ASRock[30], a business[31], in Taiwan[32], founded in 2002[33], headquartered in Taipei[34]; and Hitachi Caravaggio[35].

Why It Matters

rock music has been cited as an influence by Michael Landau[36], a musician[37], b. 1958[38], of United States[39]; Atoll[40], a musical group[41], founded in 1972[42]; Red Cardell[43], a musical group[44], founded in 1992[45]; and Bruno K. Öijer[46], a writer[47], b. 1951[48], of Sweden[49], awarded the Carl Emil Englund prize[50].

Entities named for it include Live Aid[21], a benefit concert[22], in United States[23], founded in 1984[24]; Rock Me Amadeus[25], a musical work/composition[26]; rock opera[27], a music genre[28], founded in 1967[29]; ASRock[30], a business[31], in Taiwan[32], founded in 2002[33], headquartered in Taipei[34]; and Hitachi Caravaggio[35].

FAQs

Who did rock music influence?

rock music has been cited as an influence by Michael Landau[36], Atoll[40], Red Cardell[43], and Bruno K. Öijer[46].

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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · ChristianKl · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Short name → {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'рок'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'rock'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Rock'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Short name: Rock"
  2. 5w ago · ChristianKl · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'b
    Sitelink count → 161
    Short name → {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'рок'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'rock'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Rock'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Short name: rock"
  3. 10w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → rock music award
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has characteristic: rock music award"
  4. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → rock-music
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: rock-music, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289964484|rock music (#289964484)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  5. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0005079-rock
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0005079-rock, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  6. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subreddit → rock, rockmusic
    Inception → +1948-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Country of origin → —
    Twitch tag ID → f27da80e-b26a-447b-bcfa-b20ac049d333
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ YSO ID: 1882, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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