Band performing on stage. 1961 - 8x10 photo

Band performing on stage. 1961 - 8x10 photo "Band performing on stage. 1961 Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States duringthe late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues,boogie woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music.records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s."Rock and roll" canrefer either to the first wave of music that originated in the US in the 1950s prior to itsdevelopment into "rock music", or more broadly to rock music and culture. For the purpose ofdifferentiation, this article deals with the first definition. Keywords: bands, people, men,musician, musical instrument, rock and roll, " Pickid: 468663