rock'n'roll

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a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

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rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. Source: Internet

1960s: James Brown James Brown, a principal innovator of funk music Little Richard 's saxophone-studded, mid-1950s R&B road band was credited by James Brown and others as being the first to put the funk in the rock'n'roll beat. Source: Internet

At the end of the 1950s appeared the bluesy Tulsa Sound merging rock'n'roll, jazz and country influences. Source: Internet

;Bobby Terrance :Bobby (McCulloch) is a rebellious teenager whose love of rock'n'roll serves as the basis for most of his sketches. Source: Internet

The Dingoes provided a "spirited combination of R&B, country and red-hot rock'n'roll was imbued with a delightful sense of time and place" according to McFarlane. Source: Internet

I absolutely love it more than any rock'n'roll I ever heard". citation Nirvana's acoustic Unplugged set, which was released posthumously as an album in 1994, may have provided a hint of Cobain's future musical direction. Source: Internet

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