The Emergence Machine

Rock And Roll

abstract · Music · Level 9 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Rock-and-roll emerges as a genre of popular music that originated in the 1950s, characterized by a pattern of creative work that takes shape through the interaction of person, harmony, melody, rhythm, and sound, building upon the understanding of popular music.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “rock and roll” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “rock and roll”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
rock and roll
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL9L8L7L6L2L1L0Rock And RollPopular MusicRock MusicMusicRhythmSound… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterWaveEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesGarage RockL10RockabillyL10TwistL10Rock And RollL9Popular MusicL8Rock MusicL8E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Popular Music L8 (requires)
    Genre of popular music, early subgenre of rock music.
  • Rock Music L8 (requires)
    Genre of popular music, early subgenre of rock music.

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