1. Be understandable. This usage, first recorded in 1686, is often used in a negative context, as in This explanation doesn't make sense. 2. Be reasonable, wise, or practical, as in It makes sense to find out first how many will attend the conference. This term employs sense in the meaning of what is reasonable, a usage dating from 1600.
Answer Wiki. The rock and roll era began around 1950. It evolved from rhythm and blues in the 1940s. The name rock and roll was the title of a song by the Boswell Sisters in 1934 (YouTube), but that was a swing song.
Popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in 1951, the term ârock and rollâ came to be used to describe a new form of music, steeped in the blues, rhythm and blues, country, and gospel.