I enjoy the sound of Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s
I love Rock music also. Do you know what influenced that genre?
has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily on the African-American genres of blues and rhythm
I can hear those influences in the music now that you say it. Was rock music widely accepted by the masses in that period as a legitimate form of music?
"rocking and rolling" originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but it was used by the early 20th century, both to describe a spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy. Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently – but still intermittently – in the late 1930s and 1940s, principally on recordings and in reviews of what became known as "rhythm and blues" music aimed at black audiences. In 1951, Cleveland-based disc jockey Alan Freed began playing
Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily on the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues