Focusing on all kinds of 'Rock' music, I have asked questions and plan to see if the answers given relate someway to theories learnt in lectures.

My interviewees for this report were Graham (19) and Ian (46).

Starting with a question on why choose the 'Rock' genre over all others, the answers were unsurprisingly different with Graham answering that because there is not set sound to rock music, it is a very diverse genre with the likes of Deep Purple and Iron Maiden's 'Heavy Metal' genre from the 1970 - 80's to 'make you dance' and the easy listening diversity of many other artists work such as The Beatles and Elvis Presley all classed in the same genre. Another factor was that 'if you look back over time, successful artists have been rock influenced or in rock bands themselves'. Showing that popularity in the past can still influence popular culture today.

Ian answering that he never really chose the 'Rock' genre over any others noting that 'it's not a mutually exclusive choice' and asking 'what is 'rock' anyway?'. He goes on to tell me

Graham recalled that 'social groupings were important when you were younger because, if admitting to listening to older outdated bands, you could face ridicule from the 'cool' kids' thus alienating yourself from the popular crowd where everyone wants to be.

Taking 'if you look back over time, successful artists have been rock influenced or in rock bands themselves' from Graham's answer I noticed a pattern that seems to agree with theorist Theodore Adorno. He states that 'every element contained in a piece of serious music is inherent to it's overall being. This is not true of popular music. The beginning of the chorus is replaceable by the beginning of innumerable other choruses... every detail is substitutable; it serves a function only as a cog in a machine.' (1991, 303)

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Approximate Word count = 1473
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)