Soft rock
Soft Rock or soft rock (Engl., Literally. "Soft rock") referred to since the early 1970s as a counter-concept to the Hard Rock is a genre variant of rock music . Compared to the concept of hard rock, the boundaries are more blurred, soft rock is often used as a negation (everything that is not hard rock). It includes productions of folk rock , country rock or even the hit rock productions of pop music . Peter Wicke and Wieland Ziegenrücker deny that the term is suitable for defining a genre, but point to the right to exist in journalistic use. Other terms in German are Kuschelrock or Schmuserock .
Representative
Interpreters to whom the attribute soft rock is often attributed journalistically are u. a .:
- Air supply
- America
- Bee Gees
- Billy Joel
- Boz Scaggs
- Bread
- Captain & Tennille
- Carole King
- Carpenters
- Chicago
- Christopher Cross
- The Doobie Brothers
- Eagles
- Elton John
- Fleetwood Mac
- James Taylor
- John Denver
- Little River Band
- Loggins and Messina
- Neil Diamond
- Olivia Newton-John
- Seals & Crofts
- Steely Dan
- Supertramp
literature
- Wicke & Ziegenrücker: Handbook of popular music , 4th edition, 2001. ISBN 3-254-08363-6 , p. 493 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Soft Rock Music Artists. Retrieved December 6, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ The invention of the feel-good sound: How soft rock conquered the world in the 70s. August 4, 2017, accessed on December 6, 2019 (German).