What is the difference between rock music and folk music?

Folk songs (folk songs) originally refer to the traditional songs of each nation. The ancestors of each nation have their own songs from primitive/ancient times. Most of these songs don't know who the author is, but they are passed down from generation to generation. The folk songs we are talking about today mostly refer to the folk songs in the pop music era, which are accompanied by acoustic guitars and sung in a natural and frank way, singing the simple life feelings of everyone. WOODY GUTHRIE, an American folk singer, recorded the earliest folk songs in 1950s, so she is recognized as the founder of modern folk songs. Later, pete seeger and The Weaver continued to promote this kind of music. In the Vietnam War in 1960s, anti-war folk singers such as Bob Dylan, joan baez, Peter, Paul and Mary became the voices of the times. After the development of folk songs to pop, rock and urbanization, Bob Dylan invented folk rock, Simon &; Garfinkel has developed a middle-class urban folk pop music, which has been popular for some time. In 1980s, Susanna Vega, tracy chapman, etc. +Out of a more modern urban/contemporary folk song route. Folk songs (folk songs) have also developed different faces in music circles such as Britain and Hong Kong. The recent development of folk songs is the combination with the new era (such as ENYA) and TRIP HOP (such as BETH ORTON).

Rock music. There are too many classifications of rock music. The most traditional rock music refers to Elvis Presley's style of combining rhythm and blues with white country music. Later, after rapid fission development and replication, there are countless styles now. Mainly metal, punk, psychedelic rock, post-punk, post-rock, junk rock, country rock and so on. In the process of development, various styles are intertwined, combined and split to form various new styles, which can be further divided, so I won't go into details here.

By the way, China's concept of rock music now mainly does not refer to any specific music style. Mainly refers to independent music, different from the most mainstream commercial music.