rock music
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1.6
- noun
- /rɑk ˈmjuzɪk/
:
música rock
- I was awakened by rock music blaring from the wall speakers.
- pop and rock music
- jazz and rock music
- American rock music
In the case of music, we got rock music because the transistor radio came with headphones.
- In the case of music, we got rock music because the transistor radio came with headphones.
- There were weekly TV shows that played rock music.
- That was like before MGK even made punk rock music.
- Now, if you think of that simply without knowledge of the real world, you would think that rock music is dominated by women guitarists.
- This is a great tuning for a for rock, for rock music, for country music, anything like that.
- So I took that energy that I've always had in me for fish, for tropical birds, skateboarding, punk rock music eventually is biology.
- So you got to have guys like Bill Nye got to put some rock music in it or Neil deGrasse Tyson who've got to be cool and have to.
Examples
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Here came a huge portable tape player, tumbling in time to the rock music it was playing.
Fiction book (1992) -
Many teenagers today are influenced by rock music from the 1980s and 1990s.
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"In American places," he answers, "the music, the rock music, you hear constantly."
Fiction book (1998) -
Notable among these concerns are rock music and the record industry.
Academic text (1990) -
True, perhaps at one time... but rock music is different now.
Fiction book (2000) -
I wish to disprove the prevailing false belief that rock music is based on drugs and sex.
Fiction book (2000) -
Older Christians objected that rock music, and especially loud drums and electric guitars, are inherently evil.
Academic text (2018) -
Mia discovered her passion for rock music in college, where she formed a band with her friends.
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He loves playing rock music on his guitar during family gatherings.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A style of popular music with strong guitar and drum sounds
107
1.8
A type of popular music from the 1950s with a strong beat and electric guitars
How Energetic
26
3.9
33
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: combining 'rock' (the musical genre) with 'music' yields 'music of the rock genre', so the overall meaning follows standard noun-noun compounding patterns and is easily predictable. Any ambiguity of 'rock' (e.g. stone) is resolved by the co-occurrence with 'music', making the phrase immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Rock music: The name rock music comes from the verb rock, meaning to move back and forth, because the strong beat of this music makes people 'rock' or dance. That's why rock music now means loud, beat-driven popular music often played with electric guitars.