Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm a ...
is a
musical genre from the
United States
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, popularized worldwide beginning in the 1950s. Though rock had become popular earlier, it was not until the mid-1980s breakthrough of
Laibach
Laibach () is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue ...
, who are now internationally renowned, that Slovenian rock became well-known. Other well-known Slovenian rock bands include
Hic et Nunc, whose 1998 tour of the United States brought even more international attention to Slovenian rock.
In
Yugoslavia
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,
Slovenia
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was the center for
punk rock. The best-known representatives of this genre were
Pankrti
Pankrti (The ''Bastards'' in Slovene) are a punk rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active in the late 1970s and 1980s. They were known for provocative and political songs. They billed themselves as ''The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtai ...
,
Niet,
Lublanski Psi,
Čao Pičke,
Via Ofenziva
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,
Tožibabe, and
Otroci Socializma
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.
Popular rock artists, largely unknown outside the country, are:
Lačni Franz
Lačni Franz (meaning ''Hungry Franz'') is a rock band from Slovenia that was also popular in the 1980s in Yugoslavia. While they were inspired by another Slovenian radical band Buldožer known for utilizing sheer madness in the social and polit ...
(
Zoran Predin
Zoran Predin (born 16 June 1958) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter from Maribor. In the 1980s, he was the front man of the new wave rock band ''Lačni Franz''. He also writes music for film, television, and theatre.
In the late 1990s and early 20 ...
),
Šank Rock,
Big Foot Mama
Big Foot Mama is a rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is one of the most popular Slovenian pop rock bands of the 1990s.
The group started their career in 1990. After their third album, ''Tretja dimenzija'' (The Third Dimension), they were a ...
,
Zaklonišče Prepeva,
Siddharta,
Vlado Kreslin
Vlado Kreslin (born 29 November 1953) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and folk rock musician.
Life and work
Kreslin was born in the village of Beltinci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. He began his musical career ...
,
Niet,
Mi2,
Buldožer
Buldožer (meaning " bulldozer"), was a Yugoslav-Slovenian progressive rock band from the 1970s and 1980s. They were one of the first bands in communist Yugoslavia that could be considered Avant-prog, and forefathers of the Yugoslav new wave ...
,
Carpe Diem,
Dan D,
Društvo mrtvih pesnikov,
Elvis Jackson (ska punk),
Orlek,
Avtomobili, Pink Panker and others.
Slovenian
neofolk/
martial industrial band
Laibach
Laibach () is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue ...
are also sometimes mentioned as the most known Slovenian "rock" band.
See also
*
Popular music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Popular music in Yugoslavia includes the pop and rock music of the former SFR Yugoslavia, including all their genres and subgenres. The scene included the constituent republics: SR Slovenia, SR Croatia, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Montenegro, S ...
*
New wave music in Yugoslavia
New wave in Yugoslavia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Нови талас, Novi talas; hr, Novi val; sl, Novi val; mk, Нов бран) was the new wave music scene of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. As its counterparts, the British and the Amer ...
*
Punk rock in Yugoslavia Punk rock in Yugoslavia was the punk subculture of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The most developed scenes across the federation existed in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, the Adriatic coast of the Socialist Republic of Cr ...
Slovenian music
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