![]() Once a medium for rebellion and voicing social change, rock has become a marketing tool for big business. ![]() Once the sound of youthful defiance, rock now crosses generations my senior-age mother likes to listen to U2 alongside Frank Sinatra and Enya. A Finnish group called “4R” has its own version of U2’s signature sound. Japan has a prospering alternative-music scene, from the thrashprogressive group Ruins to the Ramones-style “girl group” Shonen Knife. Germany and other European countries have thriving local hip-hop scenes. Karaoke clubs around the world offer locals the opportunity to sing-to be-Madonna or Bruce Springsteen for a night. Along the way, rock- and those related styles such as rap and R
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