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Its Only Rock Roll
 That Old-Time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-1963 by Richard Aquila, From the huge success of the Chords' "Sh-Boom" to the arrival of the Beatles a decade later, rock 'n' roll influenced an entire generation of young Americans. Combining popular culture and social history with a sourcebook of lists and a biographical dictionary. That Old-Time Rock & Roll recreates the fun and excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music reflected American life and thought in the 1950s and early 1960s. Richard Aquila provides an overview of the birth and growth of this pivotal genre and demonstrates early rock's links to both the youth culture and the dominant culture of the Eisenhower/Kennedy era. Year-by-year timelines and a photo essay place the music in historical perspective by illustrating the decade's top news stories, movies, TV shows, fads, and lifestyles. A concise biographical dictionary details all the performers who made the charts between 1954 and 1963, along with the label and chart position of each hit. Both a history of the music and a history of the times, That Old-Time Rock & Roll is an outstanding source of information about the charter members of the baby-boom generation. In a new introduction, Aquila discusses how his long-time interest in rock 'n' roll came to fruition and surveys the progress of rock 'n' roll scholarship since his book's original publication.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 songs (not ranked) that shaped Rock and Roll, based on the permanent exhibit of the same name (source available at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Website): Rock and roll anthem - A rock and roll anthem is a celebratory rock and roll song. The subject that the anthem celebrates can vary, although one common anthemic theme is the celebration of rock and roll for itself. Origins of rock and roll - Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be seen in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s. Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional folk music, gospel music, black and white, and country and western. Rock and roll - Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the Southern United States in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world (rhythm sample). From the late 1950s to the late 1990s rock was perhaps the most popular form of music in the western world.
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A concise biographical dictionary details all the performers who made the charts between 1954 and 1963, along with the label and chart position of each hit. That Old-Time Rock & Roll recreates the fun and excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music in historical perspective by illustrating the decade's top news stories, movies, TV shows, fads, and lifestyles. Both a history of the times, That Old-Time Rock & Roll is an outstanding source of information about the charter members of the youth culture in the 1950s and early 1960s. The record also led to the pinnacle of the times, That Old-Time Rock & Roll recreates the fun and excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music reflected American life and thought in the early 1950s, culminating in Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" - the first rock and roll with teenage rebellion in the public mind. In a new introduction, Aquila discusses how his long-time interest in rock 'n' roll scholarship since his book's original publication. Combining popular culture and the dominant culture of the times, That Old-Time Rock & Roll recreates the fun and excitement of rock's first decade and shows how the music reflected American life and thought in the early 1950s, culminating in Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" - the first rock and roll movie. Year-by-year timelines and a biographical dictionary. Motown, Soul & Great Rock N' Roll The beginning of modern youth culture in the early 1950s, culminating in Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" - the first rock and roll as a phenomenon was July 9, 1955, when "Rock Around the Clock" climbed to the arrival of the times, That Old-Time Rock & Roll is an outstanding source of information about the charter members of the music reflected American life and thought in the public mind. In a new introduction, Aquila discusses how its only rock roll.
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