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Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' 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. [1] [2] It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues, [3 ...
Sep 23, 2016 · In 2009, musician and historian Elijah Wald published an overview of American pop from the 1890s to the 1960s he called How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll.The title was a bomb-throwing ...
Jun 18, 2024 · rock. rock and roll, style of popular music that originated in the United States in the mid-1950s and that evolved by the mid-1960s into the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known as rock and roll. Rock and roll has been described as a merger of country music and rhythm and blues ...
Nov 9, 2023 · The Birth of Rock and Roll Records: The release of rock and roll records in the 1950s allowed the genre to reach a broader audience. Elvis Presley’s self-titled debut album in 1956 and Chuck Berry’s hit singles, such as “Johnny B. Goode,” were among the first to make a significant impact.
Nov 8, 2015 · Rock and roll became possible when it started to dawn on people that not everyone buying R. & B. records or listening to R. & B. songs on the radio was African-American. In 1952, the year Phillips ...
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The Counterculture Movement (1966-1969) By the late 1960s, people had become used to rock'n'roll, and it was no longer as exciting as it had been twenty years earlier. As a result, newer artists began experimenting with strange new ways of manipulating the rock'n'roll sound. One of the new styles that became popular was known as 'psychedelic ...
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The origins of rock and roll are complex. Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
