Would it be here, or not?

I got this idea from another thread. H.I.M. posed the question 'what would you listen to if rock hadn't been invented?'

That got me thinking....what if rock music really had never been born? What music out there today would, or would not be here? Would Emo be here? Did it grow from rock? What about other genres? Dance music? These are just thoughts off the top of my head.

Of course, the stuff that was around before rock would be here. Would it be more prominent? It would almost have to be, wouldn't it?

Just wondering what everyone else thought.
 
i do that when I'm rollin'! Seriously, without music we'd have developed (socially) very differently. Songs and poetry were the way to get educated back in the day. Hell, Shakespear made up worRAB to make his writing sound better, developed alot of the English language right there.
 
Seeing as emo comes from hardcore which comes from punk which comes from rock. Emo probaly wouldn't be here, but jeez, its kind of hard to imagine.
 
I think its birth was unavoidable, it is a progression of music that is necessary to even sturable upon if you are experimenting with music and sounRAB and instruments. It is sad that "emo" is the first genre you are concerned with when here is every other one, but same thought I guess.
 
:( I like this imaginary world where electronica is uber cool. It's huge but electronica people are few and everywhere instead of many in selected places.
 
I would imagine that nothing really different would have happened, it would have just skipped a generation, rock evelving from blues/classical/jazz. So it would have skipped the elvis and beatles period to the late 60's/70's progressive band like Yes and continued into the 80's from there.

EDIT: Thaught, it does work except for the technology of the time, dangit!
 
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