Roll music has developed since the middle of this century, which is almost half a century. But what is rock music? Perhaps no one can make a complete conclusion with any description so far; Because some people think that rock music is a mixed kind of music that gradually evolved and merged from jazz, blues and folk songs at the beginning of < P >; However, some people think that rock music was originally endowed with a rebellious spirit, attitude towards life or an idea. However, "Rock

Music" has sprouted and thrived in various genres for more than forty years, which makes rock music present such diverse styles and types today.

Generally speaking, after entering the 199s, rock music can be said to have inherited the features of the 198s and become more vigorous and abundant. Many newly derived music types or terms have appeared one after another and specifically described the new generation of music belonging to the 199s. We can even say that rock music has been full of unknown potential and unpredictable new forces since it entered the 199s.

The emergence and controversy of the term p>Post-Rock

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In about 95, America Mura Voice magazine published an article written by the British music critic Simon

Reynolds, and in the article, Mr. Simon mainly tried to describe that in the mid-199s, The music of a group of underground bands with "Drag City", "Trill

Jockey" and "Too Pure" as the main brands, and whether they are in music style or concept, Mainly with Cool

Jazz (cool

), Free Jazz (free jazz), ambient music (ambient

), and the mixing technology of reggae music (Dub), plus ProgressiveRock and Kraut-Rock in the 197s, as the basic elements of their music creation experiment. In this category, it happened that there were a bunch of local underground bands in Chicago, Britain, America and Europe at that time, which met Mr. Simon's description, and he used the word "Post-

Rock" for the first time in the article, temporarily referring to these avant-garde groups who dared to break through the existing definition of rock music. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for some music magazines to formally call this group of new generation bands dedicated to the new aesthetics of rock music

with "Post-Rock".

However, although Post-Rock has already had a more formal name, in fact, at the beginning, many music magazines were basically unable to comment on the music played by this group of people. For example, when rolling stone magazine introduced these groups, it only used the word "Instrument

Rock" to address them. The main reason is that most of these bands tend to play purely musical instruments and have no lead singer. However, some publications are also called

"DroneRock ","Space Rock ","Out Rock ","Neo-shoegazer-

rock "or" Kraut-Rock "because of their music style or origin. However, after the name "post-rock" was formally adopted, it was only after the word "Post-

Rock" was systematically and continuously introduced and reported by the British music magazine Wire that the whole so-called "post-rock movement" slowly spread. Only up to now, there are still many music critics or groups labeled as post-rock bands who still hate < P > or deny the term "post-rock". Because they think that this term label is simply not enough to describe the music style they play; Even in Chicago, which is regarded as one of the

"post-rock" bases, at the beginning, the term "post-rock" was hardly mentioned in the local alternative music publications or music reviews to describe the newly emerging representative band Tortoise or

Sea And

Cake. What's more, many music critics still think that the so-called "post-rock" concept appeared as early as the 197s, but these concepts were only contained in various non-mainstream music schools and several key bands, and < P > what appeared at that time was only a scattered concept of creation, but now it is only through Mr. Simon's introduction that it has become a new generation of music by the operation of the media?

the basic concept of p>Post-Rock

so

what exactly was Mr. Simon's definition? And what is the so-called "post-rock"? What's the difference between it and the so-called ordinary "rock music"? If "post-rock" music is like the reaction of "post-modernism" to "modernism", then it is mainly an attempt to subvert the basic concept and traditional structure of rock music, or even make a negative resistance to the operation of the whole so-called music industry. For example, the same < P > is a rock group that plays electric guitar, drums and bass, but it may turn into a completely different creative concept if it is changed to musicians who play "post-rock". In short, the so-called "post-rock" is actually a mode of subverting traditional rock music creation by concept < P > or theory (such as theme-bridge-theme-bridge). If you have listened to some "post-rock" music, you may find that most of the theories they quoted are < P > based on the so-called "deconstruction" or the concepts of "postmodernism" or "post-structuralism" in western literary theory. Therefore, just like the "deconstruction" works that were completely different ten years ago, if you look for all the "post-rock" bands now, you may find that none of them sound similar or similar in style (perhaps in their minds, the style has long been broken or does not exist).

The Institute

thinks that the definition that Mr. Simon had in mind at the beginning should be very broad, because when Chicago band Tortoise and Sea And

Cake released their albums of the same name in 1994, these two albums already showed two quite different styles: Tortoise was deeply influenced by the ideas of progressive rock band Can and electronic music experimental band Kraftwerk

in the 197s. However, some works are directly influenced by modern music, minimalism (such as Philip Glass) or Free Jazz masters Miles Davis, Ornette

Coleman and Sun Ra; As for Sea And Cake, it focuses on creating floating and low-key emotions; Even

Stereolab, which is well-known in the field of "post-rock", uses the keynote of pop music extensively, and then deconstructs and reorganizes it into another style.

An example of the failure of the experimental movement

However

Just as several years have passed, some situations have changed, Grunge or alternative music is gradually facing a recession, while Electronica is gradually emerging. At that time, Mr. Simon regarded the concept of new

music creation techniques, but now it has become the basic skills and common sense of electronic music; From Beck, the young spokesperson of the new generation, to Mass

Attack, Prodigy or Chemical Brothers

, etc., these "post-rock" groups should be more or less inspired and influenced. As a result, the post-rock movement and the band originally referred to by Mr. Simon had to move in a more difficult and avant-garde direction, and even some people < P > regarded this movement as an example of the failure of the experimental movement.

However, despite such severe misunderstandings and arguments, Chicago groups such as Tortoise, Gastr Del

Sol and Tran AM

have published their respective representative works one after another to announce the coming of the "post-rock" era. Apart from the album released by independent labels in Chicago in 1994, Tortoise's < P > Millions Now Living Will Never Die, published in 1996, was later regarded as a cross-century classic in the 199s by Alternative

Press. The cold and precise Gastr Del

Sol was rated as a new milestone of "post-rock" in "Camoufleur" in 1998. Even other less well-known European and American groups such as Dirty

Three, Labradford, Oval, Ui, Shellac, Flying Saucer Attack,

Spirited,

Mogwai, U.N.K.L.E, Cul de Sac, Spectrum, Third Eye

Foundation and so on are also constantly producing excellent works. If you pay a little attention, even when they released a new album last year, the most influential R.E.M.

band in America began to learn from these post-rock groups. Of course, other mainstream groups with sensitive noses also smell this new trend and see if it can be used in the next album. Of course, so some media

predicted that the next wave of new trends should be the turn of post-rock music. And these "post-rock" bands will slowly emerge. However, it has been gradually wooed by the mainstream. For some people who insist on their ideals and pursue the avant-garde new concept, they once again question and object, thinking that the methods experimented by these "post-rock" groups have been used too frequently now, and they have lost the significance of pursuing innovation at the beginning. (◆ Note

1)

The last cross-century revolution

However, regardless of the extremists, as revealed by the "post-" of "post-rock", many phenomena produced by traditional rock music or its music industry are often subverted in "post-rock" bands: for example, they have not attracted fans. Even the traditional record industry or the ultimate substantive purpose of some creators. The timeless classic

singles are all lack of interest for these "post-rock" groups. Almost all the modes of active operation and manipulation in the recording industry, or the attitude and motivation of creators under this ideology, can be said to have been broken, subverted and deconstructed one by one.

if the so-called "post-rock movement" really subverts the old traditional rock music to some extent, then the future music world

outlined by Mr. Simon at the beginning is actually looking for or opening another new door to the embarrassment of the so-called "alternative rock" era: like a boomerang, it is a kind of history when the development of rock music has reached a certain limit. In other words, after playing bare guitar or the pattern composed by four or six people with the band, Electronica

and "post-rock" emerged successively, which seems to be another large-scale transfer and inheritance of the origin of rock music development. Of course, if we want to find our roots, Spiderland, released by American underground band Slint in 1991, is a good starting point. If we push back further, apart from the kinds of music mentioned above, the "post-punk" in the 198s is also closely related to the "NoWave

Movement" in new york in 1977. However, like Electronica in the past two years, many electronic and noise experimental bands that were baptized by modern music and minimalism in their early years are now turned over again with the help of these younger generations, and are regarded as the origin of all new music. In addition, "progressive rock" or "art rock", which was derided by many music critics in those years, also took this opportunity to blend into many "post-rock"

groups that rose in Europe.

New creative ideas and recording techniques are constantly brought into the album works, and the exchange of needed goods between musicians and bands, types and sub-types are constantly developed, and new rock aesthetics are redefined again

. If, according to SimonReynolds, "post-rock" is simply the use of rock instruments for non-rock purposes. Then, looking back at the

exhibition in the past 4 years, isn't rock music always a revolutionary music? Whether it was Elvis Presley in those days or the most avant-garde and advanced underground music now, these people who dared to break through were < P > the most revolutionary music at that time. We can even say that even if rock music enters the post-rock era, the essence of the practical philosophy of rock music is still unchanged, and as long as the authenticity and materiality of live performances are adhered to, rock music will still be rock music. And the seeds of revolution continue to sprout alone in every corner.

Look at the wild prodigal son forty years ago, and look at the

generation of digital and electronic information now. In those days, the kids who were brave and lively and jumping around can be vaguely distinguished. Their spirit of striding forward in rock and roll has not been extinguished, but their hollow steel string acoustic guitars have already been replaced by shiny and cool electronic equipment and musical instruments, and the later

generation society has already arrived. Perhaps these newly-growing music can just reflect and welcome this. !

◆ Note 1: In 1998, a Mr. Paul

Dickow once suggested to Wen that there are no new post-rock works to excite him, and there are no new creators to challenge these post-rock groups at present, which worries him. So he went on to put forward

three concepts worth thinking about for future creators to work hard. 1. Decentralize the main theme; 2. Beginning to use non-expressive musical instruments to express;

3. Take the cheapest digital machine as the basis of everyone's creation.

Post Rock/Experimental

In the experimental rock movement which was deeply influenced by electro-acoustic instrumental rock, post rock is undoubtedly the dominant music type. There are a lot of experimental schools in post-rock music-－Krauft-Rock, Ambient Music, Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Math Rock, Tape Music, Minimalist Classic, British IDM, Jazz (both Avant-Garde and Cool) and Dub Reggae, in short: most of the music is based on rock music, but it is not rock music in essence.

Post-rock music gives listeners a musical feeling that is completely opposite to the traditional rock music, and its music is full of hypnosis and low voice.