The Roots, Origins of Rock and Roll Rock and Roll music originated in America and was formed,

somewhat, in the late 1920s. Afro-Americans were living and interacting with the whites back then, so its not impossible that theyre having an exchange of sound in the midst. Afro-American music was being played in the radio and was being broadcasted in some parts of U.S (particularly Memphis, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo) and because of this; music was being interchanged and traded by the two cultures. The music was a combination of Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and gospel music. In the 1930s jazz, and particularly swing, both in urban based dance bands and bluesinfluenced country swing, was among the first music to present African American sounds for a predominately white audience. The 1940s saw the increased use of horns (including saxophones), loudly uttered lyrics and boogie-like beats in jazz based music. During and immediately after World War II, with shortages of fuel and limitations on audiences and available personnel, large jazz bands were less economical and tended to be replaced by smaller combos, using guitars, bass and drums because of costly preparations for upstage productions. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, the development of jump blues, with its guitar riffs, prominent beats and shouted lyrics, gave birth to many later developments. In the documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, it explained how a regular piano key note; a standard for jazz music was easily transferred to an electric guitar arrangement/note. Rock and roll arrived at a time of steadily changing technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone, and the 45 rpm record, which allowed individuals to further explore and develop their honed craft, rock music. There were also changes in the record industry, with the rise of independent labels like Atlantic, Sun and Chess servicing niche audiences and a similar rise of radio stations that played their music, thus easily spreading the music, state by state. It was the realization that relatively affluent white teenagers were listening to this music that led to the development of what was to be defined as rock and roll as a distinct genre. The phrase "rocking and rolling" originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy. Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently - but still intermittently - in the 1940s, on recordings and in reviews of what became known as "rhythm and blues" music aimed at a black audience. By 1942, a Billboard magazine columnist had begun using the term "rock and roll" in descriptions of upbeat recordings, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it. Because the development of rock and roll was an evolutionary process, no single record can be identified as "the first" rock and roll record.

During the late 1950s rock and roll was referred to as Rockabilly because of white singers such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, who drew mainly on the country roots of the music. These singers continued the way that certain rock vibe in the music was arranged and popularized it world wide. At that time, it was the most famous forms of Rock and roll music and in some point, has inspired other foreign acts in the scene. In the 1950s, Britain was well placed to receive American rock and roll music and culture. It shared a common language, had been exposed to American culture through the stationing of troops in the country, and shared many social developments, including the emergence of distinct youth sub-cultures, which in Britain included the Teddy Boys. Trad Jazz became popular, and many of its musicians were influenced by related American styles, including boogie woogie and the blues. The skiffle craze, led by Lonnie Donegan, utilised amateurish versions of American folk songs and encouraged many of the subsequent generation of rock and roll, folk, R&B and beat musicians to start performing. At the same time British audiences were beginning to encounter American rock and roll, initially through films including Blackboard Jungle(1955) and Rock Around the Clock (1955). The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce copies of American records, recorded with session musicians and often fronted by teen idols. More grassroots British rock and rollers soon began to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and Tommy Steele. During this period American Rock and Roll remained dominant, however, in 1958 Britain produced its first "authentic" rock and roll song and star, when Cliff Richard reached number 2 in the charts with "Move It". While the American rock music is staying dormant, other rock and roll acts were sprucing up and making their marks in the music industry in the name of Rock. As interest in rock and roll was beginning to subside in America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was taken up by groups in major British urban centers like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London. About the same time, a British blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Many groups moved towards the beat music of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from skiffle, like the Quarrymen who became The Beatles, producing a form of rock and roll revivalism that carried them and many other groups to national success from about 1963 and to international success from 1964, known in America as the British Invasion. Groups that followed The Beatles included the beatinfluenced Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits and the Dave Clark Five, and the more blues-influenced The Animals, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Yardbirds. As the blues became an increasingly significant influence, leading to the creation of the blues-rock of groups like The Moody Blues, Small Faces, The Move, Traffic and Cream, and developing into rock music, the influence of early rock and roll began to subside.

During the 70s and 80s, rock music was taking on a different form. In this time, artists were exploring the world of narcotics and being drugged and has affected their writing styles. Musicians were starting to write songs with radical and taboo ideas as subjects in their lyricism, such as drugs, sex, lust, and Satanism. And thus, rock music was being banned by parents from their children. Because of this, rock gave rise to and somehow, became a side settling term with rebellion among teenagers back then. Rock and roll was being the face of rebellion, an underground scene that many people had misunderstood for quite some time.

The 90s arrived, somehow, a fresh start for rock and roll was in the making as the youths voice were being more apparent and being heard louder than before. Rock was being more accessible at this time and almost all of the teens wanted to have their very own bands to perform with. Rock was entering a state were it was no longer considered as taboo or Satanic, it was being re-invented. Rock had new faces, names, and lyricism that time. It had even spread out and gave the audience a whole new sound and content to chew on. It became deeper and more meaningful as teens are using this genre as an outlet for their self expression.

Now rock in the 2000s evolved from super fast, jumpy beats of the 50s to the grooving sound of the 60s and 70s to the pounding, hard-hitting sounds of the 80s to the reviving sound of the 90s to a well balance sound of the present. Nowadays, rock and roll is being appreciated by all ages. Its evolution from underground to mainstream had become that colorful. Rock has its stereotyped name from the 70s and the 80s as a satanic form of music has been removed and was given a new name.