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Rock and Roll was a slang expression of the black community of the US to refer to sex.
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JohnT
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Mar 1999
time: 00:28
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Encyclopedia Britannica has the following:
Main Entry: rock and roll
Function: noun
Date: 1954
See: 2ROCK
So we go to the second definition of "Rock" and find:
Main Entry: 2rock
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Date: 1823
1 : a rocking movement
2 : popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, much repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements
If you want my opinion, the defining characteristic that separates r&r from earlier musical forms is the use of electricity to power their instruments, amplify voices, etc. That, and a return to compositional simplicity.
Frankly, I call most post-1954 music "rock and roll", regardless of whether it is "pop", "hard rock", "alternative", etc, but I do so more as a means of linguistic shorthand than out of any definitive knowledge of the strands that tie the variations together.
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Dynamic music
Rythm
Simple lyrics
that are repeated again and again
aggresiveness
and style.
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