On the History of Rock Music

Yvetta Kajanová is a Professor of Musicology at Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). She is the author of eight monographs on aesthetics and sociology of music, jazz, rock, pop music and gospel music.

• Contents: Alternative rock analysis – Archetype – Art rock – Black metal – Cover version – Death metal – Grind core – Hard core – Hard rock – Heavy metal – History – Improvisation – Indie rock – New wave – Punk rock – Rhythmic pattern – Rock and roll – Rock style – Speed metal – Thrash metal.

«This study does not only offer a chronological and statistical overview of rhythm patterns in rock music, but also provides a useful comparative tool within a particularly new research approach in the study of specific rock music genres.»(Julijana Zhabeva Papazova I@J vol.6 no.1 2016)