Rock n Roll

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Rock n Roll

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When did rock n roll develop?

• The immediate origins of rock
• n roll lie in the late 1940s and
• early 1950s through a mixing
• together of various popular
• musical genres of the time.
• These include gospel, folk
• music, and the blues. However,
• elements of rock n roll can be
• heard in country records of the
• 1930s, and in blues records
• from the 1920s.

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Where did it originate from?

• It originated in the USA.
• Going back even further,
• rock and roll can trace one
• lineage to the old Five
• Points Manhattan district of
• mid-19th century New York
• City, the scene of the first
• fusion of heavily rhythmic
• African shuffles and sand
• dances with melody-driven
• European genres,
• particularly the Irish jig.

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What Kind of Instruments were used?

• Classic rock and roll is played
• with one or two electric guitars (one
• lead, one rhythm), a string bass or
• (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass
• guitar, and a drum kit. 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 or supplemented by guitar in
• the mid to late 1950s. The beat is
• essentially a boogie woogie blues
• rhythm with an accentuated backbeat,
• the latter almost always provided by a
• snare drum.

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Who listened to rock n roll?

• Teenagers listened to rock n
• roll (mostly females) because
• of people like Frank Sinatra
• who was a recording artist in
• the 1940s. With the birth of rock
• and roll, Elvis Presley became
• one of the greatest teen idols
• of them all. His success led
• promoters to the deliberate
• creation of new "rock and roll
• idols, such as Frankie Avalon
• and Ricky Nelson.

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• In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan
• Freed began playing rhythm and blues
• music for a multi-racial audience. Freed is
• credited with first using the phrase "rock
• and roll" to describe the music. However,
• the term had already been introduced to
• US audiences, particularly in the lyrics of
• many rhythm and blues records. Three
• different songs with the title "Rock And
• Roll" were recorded in the late 1940s one
• by Paul Bascomb in 1947, another by Wild
• Bill Moore in 1948, and yet another by
• Doles Dickens in 1949, and the phrase
• was in constant use in the lyrics of RB
• songs of the time. One such record where
• the phrase was repeated throughout the
• song was "Rock And Roll Blues," recorded
• in 1949 by Erline "Rock And Roll" Harris.
• The phrase was also included in