Rock_N_Roll

Rock N Roll The Birth of Rock and Roll The birth of rock ‘n’ roll speaks of racial barriers bridged through the fusion of Afro-American musical styles with white popular music in 1950s America. Not only did white record producers and radio disc jockeys market Afro-American artists, but white artists began to cover their songs, as well as incorporate Afro-American style into their own song writing. The term rock and roll is credited to Alan Freed a disc jockey who endorsed live performances where black and white would perform on stage with an inter-racial audience. The common views of teenagers’ participated in the creation of rock ‘n’ roll as an act of rebellion. The song "Rock Around the Clock," recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets in 1954, changed the course of American music. It turned popular music on its ear, and opened a door for a new sound to music. "Rock Around the Clock" was the first true worldwide Rock rock, roll, song, white, music, richard, popular, first, artists, afro-american, tutti, style, recorded, record, musical, know, fruiti, famous, disc, clock, artist, around, american, ,yorkwwwhistory-of-rockcom, wwwrockhallcom, writing, worldwide, world, way, vocals, views, turned, true