MU121 Lecture 12: Mu121 lecture 12
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Negotiating racial boundaries with elvis and chuck berry. For the rest of this lesson i will be focusing on chuck berry and elvis presley to demonstrate four things about the birth of rock n" in the 1950s. They essentially collapsed the three genres (pop, country, r&b) to form rock n" roll: ofthesethreegenres,r&bhadthemostdirectmusicalinfluenceonrock n" roll. In fact, early rock n" roll songs, such as jackie brenston"s rocket 88, were considered r&b songs at the time and elvis"s first singles were called either country or rockabilly. It was only in retrospect that they were dubbed rock n" roll: blackartistslikechuckberrystartedtocrossoverorachievesuccessonthe mainstream pop charts because they could better appeal to white sensibilities than artists like muddy. Waters, whose persona and songs played into the. Historians will never agree on who the originator of rock n" roll was because in reality the music developed among several artists throughout the 1950s.
