Silent Steeples

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks.

Rock and roll is a high-energy, dance-oriented popular music style that emerged in the United States in the early-to-mid 1950s. It fuses the 12‑bar blues and boogie‑woogie with the backbeat and instrumentation of rhythm & blues, the twang and storytelling of country, and the fervor of gospel.