Rock and Roll Origination

Rock and Roll is a genre of popular music that evolved from the blues scale in the United States, after World War II in the late 1940s, from the African American culture, Rock and Roll did not acquire its name until the 1950’s. An early form of rock and roll was rockabilly, which combined country and jazz.

The term "rock and roll" now has at least two different meanings – rock and roll as synonymous with rock music or specifically to the music of the 1950s with the combination of blues, country and jazz.

In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced by guitar in the middle of late 1950s and gradually classic rock and roll came into the picture, Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars, an electric bass guitar and a drum kit.

The massive popularity and worldwide view of rock and roll, went on to spawn various sub-genres, commonly called "rock music" or "rock".

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In the mid 1950’s, people like Elvis Presley (singer/musician), and Alan Freed (disc jockey and concert producer of rock and roll) had made rockabilly popular.

"Rock and Roll" is a river of music that has absorbed many streams: rhythm and blues, jazz, rag time, cowboy songs, country songs, folk songs. All have contributed to the big beat.

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