Early Rock And Roll Artists

It was presented in the rock university group over new year s week in 2007.

Early rock and roll artists. But for now this will do. Experience rock roll in the order it happened decade by decade year by year and month by month. An online chronology of rock and roll history. Enjoy vintage band photos important events in music history along with all the hit songs and albums in the first fifty years of rock music.

Learn more about the history of rock and roll in this article. There s no official list of the top 10 most influential rock n roll artists of all time just speculation. Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the united states in the early to mid 1950s. Traditional mexican rhythms entered the rock roll arena through chicano artists most prominently ritchie valens.

Rca had elvis but most of the early rock roll hits were on regionally. The following 15 artists including one group made a huge impact on the rock n roll revolution and therefore can safely be singled out as. Early black rock n roll artists were influenced by other forms of music such as country music which led to many different subsets and spinoffs of the genre. Rock and roll often written as rock roll rock n roll or rock n roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the united states during the late 1940s and early 1950s from musical styles such as gospel jump blues jazz boogie woogie rhythm and blues and country music.

At some point in the future the present rock university members will make a new list that better represents our group in it s current incarnation. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s which itself developed from earlier blues boogie woogie jazz and swing music and was also influenced by gospel country and western and traditional folk music rock and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music that. While there is no exact birth date. While elements of what was to become rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s.