中国摇滚被描述为一种反传统的工具:一种非主流文化、反抗主流意识形态、商业建制以及文化霸权的音乐。喜欢摇滚的人也多半不是一般的追星族,而是用歌声倾诉一种生活和思想。中国摇滚开始于1986年“西北风”开始进入刚刚萌芽的青年文化,中国最早的摇滚歌曲大概是现在大家所推祟的中国摇滚教父崔健的《一无所有》。摇滚在华夏大地上的“反文化”中生根发芽。在那个年代成为大众文化后导致了1990年“现代摇滚”的酝酿。从此,中国摇滚开始进入主流市场,但好景不长却又被认为在形式和音质上与粤语流行歌曲近乎相似。虽然后来又有另类摇滚的出现。但中国摇滚大势已去。从此中国的大部分摇滚乐迷不再抱有幻想,这也直接导致了后来中国摇滚的衰退。 Chinese rock is described as an anti-traditional instrument: a non-mainstream culture, music against the mainstream ideology, commercial institutions and cultural hegemony. Most people who like rock are not usually fan clubs, but talk with a song of life and thought. Chinese rock began in 1986 “Northwest Wind ” began to enter the sprouting youth culture, China’s earliest rock song is probably the Chinese rock godfather Cui Jian we are now pushing “nothing.” Rock in the Chinese on the earth “anti-culture ” in root germination. In that era became popular culture led to the 1990 “modern rock ” brewing. Since then, the Chinese rock began to enter the mainstream market, but not good for a long time but was considered in terms of form and quality and Cantonese pop songs are similar. Although later there are alternative rock appear. However, the trend of Chinese rock has gone. Since then most of the Chinese rock music fans no longer have illusions, which also led directly to the later Chinese rock and roll recession.