How Rock And Roll Started

Rock and Roll is a genre of popular music that originated in the United States in between the late 1940s and early 1950s. Though styles and elements of rock and roll can be heard in music from the 1920s and 1930s, rock and roll was not an official type of music until the 1950s. An earlier form of rock and roll was known as "rockabilly." Rockabilly was country music and jazz combined with influences from tradition Appalachian folk music gospel.

Rock and Roll began attaining popularity in the 1960s. The widespread popularity of this music genre made a great social impact. Bobby Gillespie (Scottish musician) wrote that when Chuck Berry sang "Hail, hail, rock and roll, deliver me from the days of old," that it's exactly what the music was doing.

Rock and Roll wasn't just music, it was a lifestyle, fashion, attitude and a language. Now rock and roll music is more commonly known as "rock music" or "rock." Still to this very day rock has been the most favored music genre world-wide.