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rock and roll

early style of rock music
Also known as: rock ’n’ roll
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Greg Kot
Rock Critic (1990-2020), The Chicago Tribune; Co-host, Sound Opinions. Author of Wilco: Learning How to Die and Ripped: How the Wired Generation...
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rock and roll, style of popular music that originated in the United States in the mid-1950s and that evolved by the mid-1960s into the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known as rock and roll. Rock and roll has been described as a merger of country music and rhythm and blues, but, if it were that simple, it would have existed long before it burst into...

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