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While radio and television weren't exactly new to the American people, they became much more affordable and common in the 1950s. Hosts of music radio shows, called disk jockeys, became celebrities in their own right, and the spread of the popularity of rock n roll music is indebted to many disk jockeys that cropped up all over the country. The term rock n Roll came from Alan Freed, a disk jockey from Cleveland, Ohio, who hosted a rhythm and blues radio show. Freed's show The Moondog House was top rated and one of the first to play R&B records on air. Freed also hosted the first rock concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, in Cleveland on March 21, 1952. The show lasted only 45 minutes and was oversold, causing a fittingly chaotic scene for the first rock n roll concert. Rock n roll transcended as a form of music and began to affect other areas of life. In addition to changing the audio landscape of music, it began to influence other areas of pop culture, including movies and ...

I had to laugh. Isn’t youth grand? The arrogance and ignorance of those who don’t have a clue. Most of whom, were not even born yet, or anywhere close to the time of when Rock music emerged with fire and brimstone. Well, I have news for you. There isn’t one rock musician alive, or dead, today who hasn’t taken something from the Blues at one time or another. That’s right! Not one! Have they also created new innovative riffs and progressions, absolutely... or any of the others who used and infused Blues into their music or showed respect to the artists before them, you are a bunch of Posers. That’s right, you heard me… Posers... because I bet if you do your homework, much of what you listen to, play and/or have written emanates from some musician in the past that did it before you or wrote it or played it. And most likely it is from the Blues or Jazz, or Folk or classical music. In the end, if the Blues and Jazz were the roots of Rock Music, then everything else in Rock that came after...

One conspicuous omission from a list of usual birthplace suspects would be Hattiesburg, Mississippi, due to the 1936 recordings of the Mississippi Jook Band. The band was founded by Blind Roosevelt Graves and his brother Uaroy, who were best known for gospel songs... These foundational gospel tunes were the kind of seminal songs that were in the DNA of all subsequent American music. Along with pianist Cooney Vaughn, the Graves brothers recorded as the Mississippi Jook Band, and in the more secular recordings... we hear the nascent sounds of Rock and Roll. Rock’s roots derived from the rocking and reeling style of ecstatic singing found in the maverick Sanctified and Holiness churches, where guitars, drums, and horns were as acceptable as the pianos and organ, and more easily afforded. According to Palmer, the Graves brothers... featured fully formed rock and roll guitar riffs and a stomping rock and roll beat... Rock and Roll as a genre arguably dates back almost a century, it might be...

Rock and roll has evolved since its inception in the 1950s. As the decades progressed, rock and roll began to incorporate elements of other genres, such as jazz, folk, and classical music. This evolution of styles led to the development of genres such as hard rock, heavy metal, punk rock, and alternative rock. As rock and roll continues to evolve, new genres and subgenres are constantly emerging, leading to an ever changing landscape of music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence in the development of rock and roll music. The Hall of Fame was established in 1983 by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which is a non profit organization dedicated to preserving and honouring the history of rock and roll. The museum features a wide variety of artef...

Like all other musical genres, jazz can be characterized by wellndefined sub genres like swing or bebop, and by the musicians who dominated a particular period or collection of periods. But the creative output of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis quashed those norms. Davis charted an eclectic path where he didn’t settle on any one particular sound or playing style. When first introduced to popular culture, blues and jazz were branded by traditionalists as the devil’s music, yet both genres have endured the test of time and continue to maintain strong followings today through fans who crave classic recordings as well as those who seek out contemporary artists. Recent years have seen an increasing influence of R&B, hip hop and pop music on jazz in particular. Another internet aided trend of modern jazz is that of extreme reharmonization, performed by virtuosic players known for their speed and mastery of complex polyrhythms. Though their roots date back more than 150 years, blues and jazz a...

The term Rock & Roll is still popular to use, because that started it all, but If you say the Rock & Roll era… it’s the mid fifties to the early sixties. Rock, on the other hand, doesn’t refer to a specific era, and includes a wide variety of musical styles. It’s up for debate whether Rock’s broad sweep should include Pop, Hip Hop, and Rap. But let’s try to pinpoint the timeline a little more. Almost without fail, programmers of Classic Rock formats on radio stations, and now streaming services, start with the year 1967. The progression of Rock in the 1960’s, and the inspiration it gave young people to take up music, caused an explosion of Rock in the 1970’s. There have been many outstanding Rock musicians and songs in all of the decades after the ’70’s, but whether it’s called Rock & Roll or Rock, it’s currently taking a back seat to other types of music. Maybe there are young musicians practicing on their guitars, keyboards and drums, ready to return Rock back into wi...

There has always been an uncomfortable tension between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, a cyclical influence that vacillates between inspiration, appropriation and separation. Popular music has broken off into categories of rock, pop, country, and R&B, each with their own origin stories. But R&B and rock, usually codified as vastly different, Black and white styles, have long been intertwined in ways our historical memory may have us forget.  Despite the innovation that comes from separation, rock and R&B always find their way back to each other. In recent years, rock veterans have turned to the genre’s classics for inspiration. Queens of the Stone Age veered from their typical hard rock with 2017’s Villains, a dance y album inspired by frontman Josh Homme’s love of 1920s jazz and swing, other Black genres that laid the groundwork for the popular music of today. The whitewashing of rock’s history has oversimplified music’s malleability and silenced the voices of Amer...