New technologies may be disruptive to the existing population of working musicians, but even more irresistible to the general public than new technology are new forms of music, which may introduce new classes of musicians who don’t fit neatly into the existing professional categories. Take the rise of rock and roll.

k music, its makers,and its followers challenged hegemonic conceptions of ideology and social order, producing a potentially powerful form of resistance todominant social groups and establishments, aswell as to repressive social expectations andgender roles