Rock And Roll An Integral Part Of American Culture

I love Rock Roll! So, put another dime in the jukebox baby.† - (Joan Jett). Still like that old time Rock Roll. That kind of music just soothes the soul, I reminisce about the days of old, with that old time Rock Roll.† - (Bob Segar). Music has always been an integral part of American culture. Music is the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion (Oxford Dictionary). People of any race, age, social class, intelligence, etc. can enjoy music that is a popular form of entertainment. There are many different kinds of music, but Rock and Roll is one of the biggest and most popular. Rock and Roll is a combination of a blues and country music. Rock and Roll has†¦show more content†¦Their sounds were reaching white teens across America thanks to these disc jockeys and the increased availability radios. Eventually white performers, such as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley began to re-record recordings by black performers. These new versions were not exact copies of the originals. The newer versions were faster and the country style guitar replaced jazz styled instruments. The lyrics also changed from black slang to language that was more acceptable to white audiences. During this time of the mixture of blues and country, black musicians such as Little Richard and Fats Domino began to capture white audiences with their own new recordings. As artists continued to write music following in the steps the others, the blues and country elements faded and newer groups began to establish a new energy of American music in the 1950 s. Rock and Roll is the new energy, which also was a slang expression for lovemaking that appeared in many blues songs back in the thirties (Charlton, 1990). Rock and Roll began as an American phenomenon and has grown to international proportions (Stump, 1997), and even tually became music of teenage rebellion. Rock and Roll changed all people but mainly focused on teenagers. Teenagers have always been the main targets when it comes to the public. Since adults did not particularly take to the Rock and Roll music and teenagers did, the artists and the media did what