It is difficult to say when the rock and roll emerged. Of one thing you can be sure: he has always been impregnated a sexual
connotation. In blues, can be found in letters of songs from the beginning of the century. Rock may Baby, a former blues recorded among others by BB King, Joe Turner, Blue Cheer and Jefferson Airplane, brings in his letter verses as: rock me baby, rock me all night long .... The tone of sexual expression is implicit both "rock" or "roll" in the jargon of black Americans, which means trepar.
Rock me Baby (I embale nenê), which reverses the meaning of the verb and the act of wrapping the child, the baby, which in the case means the girl in a loving tone of treatment. The first concert of rock and roll was in 1953, organized by Alan Freed, where he attended more than 30 thousand people in a place with a capacity of 10 thousand that became impossible, being canceled.
In the same year was reorganized and eventually becoming a huge success, with participation by Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, The Moonglows and The Drifters in pláteia more than two thirds of the audience was composed of young whites, which provava the attraction of the public white by black music.
When Alan Freed used the term rock and roll for the first time, was referring to existing music, the RHYTHM''N BLUES, but the R & B meant black music made by blacks for blacks and rock and roll has termed a music accepted by all and open to all. The years 1953 and 1956 were crucial for the rock and roll, because at that time he began to be accepted as fact in American culture and, from there,
evolved and developed itself in different ways and
styles, varying depending on the regions it was touched.
Charlie Gillet, author of the book Sounds of the City, one of the most important scholars of the subject, and characterized separated five styles. People have said other changes, basically was through them that the rock evolved. And they all evolved from black contemporary dances, as jitterburb.
The 5 styles are:
- Northern Rock and Roll Band-style of Bill Halley
Dance Blues-New Orleans-Fats Domino and Little Richard
Memphis-Country-Rock Style of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis
- Chicago Rhtm''n Blues - Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley
- Vocal Group Rock and Roll - The Platters
"Rock and Roll, poured for the Portuguese, in a free expression, it would then" Pour & Role ".