Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 142. Chapters: American rock, Serbian rock, Argentine rock, Canadian rock, Australian rock, British rock, Popular music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Brazilian rock, Russian rock, Music of Guatemala, Chinese rock, Indian rock, Pinoy rock, Nepalese rock, Lithuanian rock, Mexican rock music, Xavier Moyano, Dutch rock, Peruvian rock, Puerto Rican rock music, British rock and roll, Finnish rock, Armenian rock, Rock and alternative music in Iran, Israeli rock, Guatemalan rock, Croatian popular music, German rock, Greek rock, Irish rock, Romanian rock, Pakistani rock, Chilean rock, French rock, Venezuelan rock, Uruguayan rock, Italian rock, Malaysian rock, Danish rock, Colombian rock, Anatolian rock, Portuguese rock, Belgian rock, Hungarian rock, Estonian rock, Dominican rock, Icelandic rock music, Thai rock, Norwegian rock, Ukrainian rock, Spanish rock, 127, Kiwi rock, Bosnian rock, Swiss rock, Rock catala, Belarusian rock, Latvian rock, Korean rock, Polish rock, Taiwanese rock, Zam-rock, Angolan rock. Excerpt: American rock is rock music from the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and country music, and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music. The creation of American rock music was highly influenced by the British Invasion of the American pop charts from 1964. From the late 1960s and early 1970s, American rock music was highly influential in the development of a number of fusions, including blending with folk music to create folk rock, with blues to create blues-rock and with jazz to create jazz-rock fusion, all of which contributed to psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock developed a large number of subgenres, such as soft rock, hard rock, heavy metal, glam rock, progressive rock and punk rock. Subgenres that were important in the 1980s included New Wave, ...