Rock n roll biography
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Rock n roll biography
Rock and roll
Genre of popular music
This article is about the 1950s style of music. For the general rock music genre, see Rock music. For other uses, see Rock and roll (disambiguation)."RnR" redirects here.
For other uses, see RNR (disambiguation).
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.[1][2] It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues,[3] as well as country music.[4] While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s[5] and in country records of the 1930s,[6] the genre did not acquire its name until 1954.[7][2]
According to the journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States