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Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range o
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- which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs, gave a sense that the rock and roll era established at that point had come to an end.
- By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and the breaking of the payola scandal,
- Commentators have traditionally perceived a decline of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- The use of power chords, pioneered by Francisco Tárrega and Heitor Villa-Lobos in the 19th century and later on by Willie Johnson and Pat Hare in the early 1950s, was popularized by Link Wray in the late 1950s.
- The use of distortion, pioneered by Western swing guitarists such as Junior Barnard[46] and Eldon Shamblin was popularized by Chuck Berry in the mid-1950s.
- The era also saw the growth in popularity of the electric guitar, and the development of a specifically rock and roll style of playing through such exponents as Chuck Berry, Link Wray, and Scotty Moore.
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- Acts like the Crows, the Penguins, the El Dorados and the Turbans all scored major hits, and groups like the Platters, with songs including "The Great Pretender" (1955), and the Coasters with humorous songs like "Yakety Yak" (1958), ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the period.
- Other styles like doo-wop placed an emphasis on multi-part vocal harmonies and backing lyrics (from which the genre later gained its name), which were usually supported with light instrumentation and had its origins in 1930s and 1940s African American vocal groups.
- with rock and roll standard musician Ritchie Valens and even those within other heritage genres, such as Al Hurricane along with his brothers Tiny Morrie and Baby Gaby as they began combining rock and roll with country-western within traditional New Mexico music.
- Hispanic and Latino American movements in rock and roll, which would eventually lead to the success of Latin rock and Chicano rock within the US, began to rise in the Southwest;
- which was usually played and recorded in the mid-1950s by white singers such as Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and with the greatest commercial success, Elvis Presley.
- Rock and roll has been seen as leading to a number of distinct subgenres, including rockabilly, combining rock and roll with "hillbilly" country music,
- who had dominated the previous decade of popular music, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed.
- Soon rock and roll was the major force in American record sales and crooners, such as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti Page,
- Other artists with early rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
- but, at the same time, Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle & Roll", later covered by Haley, was already at the top of the Billboard R&B charts.
- It also has been argued that "That's All Right (Mama)" (1954), Elvis Presley's first single for Sun Records in Memphis, could be the first rock and roll record,
- Four years later, Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" (1955) became the first rock and roll song to top Billboard magazine's main sales and airplay charts, and opened the door worldwide for this new wave of popular culture.
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- Jimmy Preston's "Rock the Joint" (1949), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952;
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- Wynonie Harris' "Good Rocking Tonight" (1948);Goree Carter's "Rock Awhile" (1949);
- Contenders include "The House of Blue Lights" by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack (1946);
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- Debate surrounds the many recordings which have been suggested as "the first rock and roll record".
- In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music (then termed "race music") for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase "rock and roll" to describe the music.
- Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western.
- which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world.
- The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll,
- Main article: Rock and roll
See also: Origins of rock and roll and Rockabilly
- as much as it is in the music of Chuck Berry, the Ramones, and the Replacements.
- -songwriter Michelle Shocked, rapper LL Cool J, and synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys—"all kids working out their identities"—
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- Writing in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990), he said this sensibility is evident in the music of folk singer
- which holds an "eternal attraction" so objective "that all youth music partakes of sociology and the field report."
- including a fondness for a good beat, a meaningful lyric with some wit, and the theme of youth,
- Christgau has used the term broadly to refer to popular and semipopular music that caters to his sensibility as "a rock-and-roller",
- which it has been influenced with but often contrasted through much of its history.
- In the new millennium, the term rock has occasionally been used as a blanket term including forms like pop music, reggae music, soul music, and even hip hop,
- According to Simon Frith, rock was "something more than pop, something more than rock and roll" and "rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the romantic concept of art as artistic expression, original and sincere".
- and a focus on serious and progressive themes as part of an ideology of authenticity that is frequently combined with an awareness of the genre's history and development.
- but from which it is often distanced by an emphasis on musicianship, live performance,
- it has usually been contrasted with pop music, with which it has shared many characteristics,