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Rock and
Roll (also known as Rock 'n' Roll),
is a genre of music that evolved in
the United States in the late 1940s
and became popular in the early 1950s,
and quickly spread to the rest of the
world. It later spawned the various
sub-genres of what is now called simply
'rock', usually accompanied by lyrics.
The beat is essentially a boogie woogie
blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat,
the latter almost always provided by
a snare drum. Classic rock and roll
is played with one electric guitar or
two
electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm),
an electric bass guitar, and a drum
kit. Keyboards are a common addition
to the mix. In the rock and roll style
of the early 1950s, the saxophone was
often the lead instrument, replaced
by guitar in the mid 1950s. In the earliest
form of rock and roll, during the late
1940s, the piano was the lead instrument,
and indeed, among the roots of rock
and roll is the boogie woogie piano
of the big-band era that dominated American
music in the 1940s.
The massive popularity and eventual
worldwide scope of rock and roll gave
it an unprecedented social impact. Far
beyond simply a musical style, rock
and roll influenced lifestyles, fashion,
attitudes, and language. Many of its
early stars, notably Elvis Presley,
Roy Orbison and Bill Haley Bill Haley
& His Comets , built movie and/or
television careers around their music.
The term "rock and roll",
which was black slang for dancing or
sex, appeared on record for the first
time in 1922 on Trixie Smith's "My
Baby Rocks Me With One Steady Roll".
Even earlier, in 1916, the term "rocking
and rolling" was used with a religious
connotation, in the phonograph record
"The Camp Meeting Jubilee"
by "Male Quartette."[1] The
word "rock" had a long history
in the English language as a metaphor
for "to shake up, to disturb or
to incite". The verb "Roll"
was a medieval metaphor which meant
"having sex". Writers for
hundreds of years have used the phrases
"They had a roll in the hay"
or "I rolled her in the clover".
In 1934 the Boswell Sisters were referring
to the rock and roll of waves in their
song "Rock and Roll" Country
singer Tommy Scott was referring to
the motion of a railroad train in the
1951 "Rockin & Rollin'' |
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