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rock music. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05

Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues; black rhythm and blues, noted for saxophone solos; black and white gospel music; white country and western music; and the songs of white popular crooners and harmony groups.
A turning point in rock music occurred in the mid-1970s in the form of punk rock, which was a response to the stagnation of the genre and a nihilistic political statement.
After 1964 the music was influenced by British groups such as the Beatles.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ro/rockmusi.html (1583 words)



Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel, Hillbilly and country and western.
As a result, "rock and roll" now has two distinct meanings: either traditional rock and roll in the 1950s style, or later rock and even pop music which may be very far from traditional rock and roll (rhythm sample).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll (1829 words)



Dawn of Rock 'n Roll

Cajuns in Louisiana were adding rock and roll to their music, and zydeco was born.
Overseas, the British were adding rock and roll to their music, and skiffle was born.
But this rocking music was new and revolutionary, and therefore it needed a new name, so the disc jockeys, led by a Cleveland DJ named Alan Freed, started calling it rock and roll.

http://www.hoyhoy.com/dawn_of_rock.htm (2572 words)



Rock 'n Roll Music

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors the legendary performers, producers, songwriters, disc jockeys and others who have made rock and roll a force in our culture.
Every afternoon, the familiar music of the theme song drifted from the televisions of thousands of teenage fans as they listened to the rock 'n' roll music they loved, watched "The Regulars" dance to the latest craze, and found out who the next teen idol was going to be....
Radio disc jockeys began calling their music rock 'n roll.

http://www.42explore.com/rocnroll.htm (1518 words)



St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Rock and Roll

In fact, rock and roll was the culmination of more than a century of musical cross-pollination between white and black, master and slave; a music born of miscegenation.
In the beginning, rock and roll music was a provocation, an affront to parents and proper citizens.
They were unaware of the rich tradition behind rock and roll, that it was playing out a cultural evolution begun in slavery, a blending of musical and cultural forms--African and European, religious and secular--a syncretistic blending of two traditions of music.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101036 (853 words)



Where Did Rock and Roll Come From?

Following the introduction, the classroom teacher may explain that students will produce a musical history of rock, performing in "lip sync" with the music of some of the groups who were a part of the evolution of rock and roll music.
Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll.
If the film is unavailable, the classroom teacher may play selections of music performed by some of the musical groups involved in the evolution of rock and roll.

http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Music/MUS0203.html (899 words)



Who Put the ROCK into the Roll?

The terms “Rock and Roll” appear together as a song title in the early 1930s (the Boswell Sisters recorded this jazz-age tune).
Rock uses the familiar harmonies of Western music, notably the major key system with its three basic chords, the tonic, sub-dominant, and dominant (C, F, and G to those who play the guitar), enriched by microtonal inflections borrowed from the blues.
Examples are Duke Ellington’s 1930 “Rockin’ in Rhythm” and “Roll ‘em Pete,” a 1938 recording with Pete Johnson playing boogie-woogie piano and Big Joe Turner singing (if this last one had been recorded 15 or 20 years later, it easily could have passed for rock ‘n’roll).

http://www.albright.edu/reporter/summer2003/rocknroll.html (497 words)



Hoy Hoy Website

Bernholm is the man who did more than anybody to bring out the truth about the originators of rock and roll, and to bring their music to the public ear.
His record labels were some of the only ones in history whose primary goal was not to profiteer from these original rockers, but to honor them and give them credit, and to document the historical value of their work so others could hear it and learn to honor these artists as well.
You should be ashamed of yourself if you don't already know it, and even more ashamed if you still believe that Elvis Presley invented rock and roll during an unrehearsed jam at Sun records in 1954.

http://www.hoyhoy.com (434 words)



Changing the World, Chapter 1: Origins

Rock 'n' roll is an African-American hybrid, but its strongest root is the very suffering, and survival, of generations of slaves, who learned how music could help a man to transcend earthly pain for awhile.
Rock 'n' roll starts from these foundations, but it adds more, and what it principally adds is white America, both in the music and in the audience.
The founding producers of rock 'n' roll liked the music they created, and were undoubtedly driven in their quest to make it popular by their own enjoyment of what they were doing as well as by the profit motive.

http://www.dntownsend.com/Site/Rock/1orig.htm (4620 words)



The Anti Rock & Roll Crusade

I was preaching on the various evils of rock and roll, mainly the lyrics and the beat and all the rest of it that goes with it.
Because they never realize, although they sit and listen to it twenty-four hours a day -- sometimes go to bed with it in their ear -- listen to it on their car radio and at home and everything, they don't really listen to the words.
A: Well, rock and roll takes it from -- that's where the history of rock and roll comes from.

http://www.superseventies.com/antirock.html (1608 words)



Lesson 68

The origins of rock and roll are in a merger of rhythm and blues, country/western, pop, and gospel.
Rock is one of the most important musical and social phenomena of the late twentieth century.
The influence of the Beatles, as one of the major rock groups, is far-reaching.

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/enj9/lessons/lesson68.htm (562 words)



Origins of Rock'n'Roll

Jackie Brenston was the singer and saxophonist on the record and Phillips gave him both the performing and songwriting credit on the record label.
Country and Western music, which had originally derived from the Celtic music of the early white settlers of the Appalachian Mountains, was absorbing other influences, especially boogie-woogie.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets were the first major rock group to introduce the three guitar and drums band which became the standard rock'n'roll lineup and Buddy was the first major rock'n'roll performer to write most of his own songs.

http://www.menziesera.com/origins_of_rock/origins_of_rock.shtml (2148 words)



Music Hall - Resource Center - Music Styles - Rock & Roll

On this AMG site, you'll get an overview of Rock's origins in the 50s, and also learn about important albums and artists of the time.
Learn how rock and roll's three chords, strong back beat, and catchy melodies evolved from blues, R&B, country, and gospel.
Before you study the origins of rock and roll, dig deep into this online time capsule and explore fifties television shows, trivia, and history.

http://www.edgate.com/musichall/parents/education_center/music_styles/rock_roll/50s.html (189 words)



MUS 470A History of Rock Music, Syllabus

Study of the origins, characteristics and stylistic development of rock and roll music from the early 1950s to the present.
Rock Music Pre-Quiz, Origins of Rock Music, 1950s
Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll.

http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/music/burnette/Mus470/syllabus.htm (617 words)



Arts Unlimited Arts Friday Review When was rock'n'roll really born?

I was spurred into action by the fact that 2004 has been widely proclaimed as rock'n'roll's Golden Jubilee year: the 50th anniversary of the release of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock and the recording of Elvis Presley's That's Alright Mama.
It was titled Rock and Roll, but that title probably just came out of my head.
There are others that cheerlead for Wynonie Harris, whose 1948 cover version of Good Rocking Tonight was much faster than Roy Brown's original, or claim the title belongs to Rock and Roll, a particularly raucous RandB track recorded in 1948 by a Detroit boxer-turned-saxophonist called Wild Bill Moore.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1192358,00.html (1853 words)



Virtual Fools

Rock and roll had come, and it was here to stay.
R&B was originally applied to all black music, excluding jazz and gospel, and encompassed genres such as blues and boogie-woogie.
In 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets covered Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll." They also did the seminal "Rock Around the Clock." In the same year, Elvis Presley began recording with Sam Phillips and Sun Records.

http://www.virtualfools.com/filler/tvmusic/rock1.html (517 words)



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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0842173.html (169 words)



The origins of rock and roll

Blues, gospel, swing, boogie woogie, rhythm & blues, rock & roll – the last in all of its permutations; call it a blending, a transition, a hybridization, maybe even a genetic modification; this is the progression of the music.
Before Elvis, Sun Records and the blues-gospel mix with electric guitars ensured it happened.
During 1954-55, Sam Phillips and his Sun Records studio began recording Elvis.

http://ky.essortment.com/originsofrock_onw.htm (726 words)



Cyberpunk, Rock and Roll, and Radical Cultural Politics

While rock n' roll reminds cyberpunk of its ribofunk, cyberpunk reminds rock n' roll of the necessity of breaking on through to the other side of the television/computer screen and fighting the powers that be on their own electronic turf.
It is within the context of cyberpunk that we turn to the most essential problem facing rock n' roll as we move towards the year 2000.
While rock n' roll provides cyberpunk with its necessary condition and ethics, the question remains: what does cyberpunk offer rock n' roll?

http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/Manifestos/cyberpoli.htm (863 words)



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The cause of this was the birth of Rock and Roll music.
All of the books listed include chart data from Billboard's Pop and Rock Singles, Albums and Album Tracks.
He was the original anti-hero of rock 'n' roll.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9487/pcmusic.htm (597 words)



The Origins of Rock and Roll

Many people believe that Bill Haley and the Comets started the Rock 'and' Roll craze with their hit record "Rock around the Clock", which featured in the smash hit kinematic release "Blackboard Jungle".
With the new sound came a new direction in the songs which could be written for the instrument and the ghost of Mr Woo the Chinese laundryman was finally laid to rest.
For the next five years, which coincided with the second Guerre Mondiale, Arthur hid in a cupboard writing Rock and Roll songs and wearing Edwardian drainpipe trousers.

http://myoldschools.co.uk/gama/artstool.html (838 words)



LivinBlues- Rock n' Roll and the Blues - Louis Jordan

He was one of the first to join electric guitar and bass with horns, and his over-the-beat spoken monologues are a prototype of Rap.
His importance to popular music cannot be overstated, and in 1983, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame and the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
What he was doing became the origins of Rock n' Roll.

http://www.livinblues.com/rockroll.asp (434 words)



Rock n' Roll Nights

The term rock-and-roll applies to my albums by Rush, the Cranberries, Suzanne Vega, U2, Billy Bragg and Billy Joel just as much as it applies to my parents doo wop collections and the Elvis Presley records of their youth.
In the past fifty or so years, rock music has split and divided again and again into many classifications: pop, bubble gum, progressive, alternative, folk, punk, etc. Even the classifications have classifications; for example, "metal" encompasses heavy metal, death metal, acid metal, etc. And all of these have their roots in...where?
Elvis Presley is known as the king of rock-and-roll, while Bill Haley (of Bill Haley and the Comets fame) has been called its father.

http://web.pdx.edu/~jwhip/musicreviews/rock.htm (455 words)



Reviews

The Boswell Sisters recorded a song called “Rock and Roll” in 1934 and rocking and rolling had been Afro-American slang for fucking since long before Freed first set foot on God’s good pasture.
In case you’re still wondering about the origins of rock ‘n’ roll, or even the origins of the phrase, I recommend Wayne “Dang” Dooley’s contribution, “It’s only rock ‘n’ roll”.
If anyone ever tells you that the term “rock ‘n’ roll” was coined by American DJ Alan Freed, tell them to take a hike.

http://www.cercles.com/review/r1/driver.html (826 words)



Michael T. Bertrand / Race, Rock, and Elvis

The story of American music is, after all, as complex as the story of the country itself, and yet Bertrand covers most bases with impressive ease.
"With his meticulous research and elegant, concise prose, Bertrand explains the class and racial origins of rock 'n' roll, situates the music within the larger context of the turbulent 1950s South, and explores the firestorm of debate that swirled around the music and its chief promoter, the hip-swiveling Elvis."
Observing that young fans of rhythm and blues in the South seemed more inclined than their elders to disregard Jim Crow's long shadow, Michael T. Bertrand's Race, Rock, and Elvis examines the emergence of rock 'n' roll in a social and regional context.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s05/bertrand.html (490 words)



R. Gary Patterson - "Hellhounds On Their Trail: Tales From The Rock & Roll Graveyard"

You'll never listen to rock music the same way again!
Now, once again, you can get my original music with my song writing partner Jim Nuchols--The Patterson-Nuchols Project.
The story of the great "Paul Is Dead" myth of the late '60's and early '70's.

http://www.rgarypatterson.com/work3.htm (720 words)



Amazon.com: The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Books: Nick Talevski

In this somewhat interesting (if overpriced) look at how and where America's rebellious pop-culture child has ended up, Talevski details the machinations, politics, and philosophy involved in founding the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“Given the amount of media coverage the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has received since its inception in the mid-`80s...it's a wonder that it took so long for any book on the subject to appear.”–
Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Rock

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0313300321?v=glance (699 words)



Cornell CAU : Off-Campus Seminars and Study Tours : From Rock of Ages to Rock'n' Roll: Nashville, Memphis Tennessee

Now we're heading to the heartland, to rock and glide through Nashville and Memphis, the Grand Ole Opry and Graceland, in search of the cultural roots and the mass-media transformations of country and gospel music into Rock 'n' Roll in the 1950s.
Great music, legendary venues, and a thorough consideration of the places, groups, singers, and business-people who together invented several of the nation's most famous musical styles: all will be on our agenda.
From Rock of Ages to Rock 'n' Roll:

http://www.sce.cornell.edu/cau/off_campus/2002_nashville.php (668 words)



Rock and roll

The Disc jockey Alan Freed is given credit for popularising the term and he had a radio show called 'Moondog's Rock'n'Roll Party' in 1951.
The 1934 film Transatlantic Merry Go Round included the song 'Rock and Roll'.
The term had been used by the black community in England, referring to sexual congress, well before this.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/304000.html (106 words)



UW-Fox Event: Scholars Series: "The Origins of Rock and Roll"

"The Origins of Rock and Roll" is being presented by Dr. Craig Hurst, Department of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scholars Series: "The Origins of Rock and Roll"
UW-Fox Event: Scholars Series: "The Origins of Rock and Roll"

http://www.fox.uwc.edu/events/SingleEvent.asp?ID=667 (92 words)



Revisiting The Origins Of Rock 'n' Roll

However, the suggestion that his fateful meeting with Chuck Berry may have resulted in a certain loss of innocence for the musician is unfortunately not credible.
I very much appreciated Hardy Green's book review of Rich Cohen's Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock & Roll ("When the blues had a baby," Books, Dec. 27).
Green states that Berry's contact with the record business came at the tender age of 19; as the "youth" was born in 1926, he would have been pushing the "untrustworthy" 30-year mark in 1955.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/c3918177_mz030.htm (646 words)



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Rock & Roll, Vol. 5: 1949 by Various Artists

To discover the origins of rock & roll, one has to return to the music of the 1930s and '40s, when the blues and rhythm & blues ruled the airwaves
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All She Wants to Do Is Rock - Wynonie Harris

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Exhibits at the Sherman Library

Rock My Soul: The Black Legacy of Rock and Roll
The Rock my Soul touring exhibition is the result of collaboration between the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and The Arts League of Michigan.
Nova Southeastern University will host the Third Annual African Presence Art Exhibition, Rock My Soul: The Black Legacy of Rock and Roll, a traveling exhibit from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum that celebrates the origins of rock and roll.

http://www.nova.edu/library/about/events/exhibits.html (452 words)