A Little History

Rock and Roll didn't just appear out of nowhere. It gradually came into being through our culture changing and in turn our style of music changing too. It all started with the blues. Rock is more or less a rabbit trail of the blues. Evolving from the feeling of sorrow felt by African Americans during the early 1900's. They were feeling oppressed and rightly so. The white man said they were free and yet still cut them off from freedom. So they had the privilege of living in and around freedom. Looking in through a pain glass and yet never truly tasting it. What this did was induce a "blue" feeling in African American men and women. The way they chose to express this feeling was through music. Singing about their troubles and then having the guitar answer them was one of the most efficient ways they could find to vent. Little did they know it would evolve into the greatest music sensation of our time. 

Basically what happened was white people started to hear this music. And being the rebels they were due to a society that believed in perfection. They started listening to the "colored" music. Until eventually it exploded when Elvis Presley came on the scene with his suggestive hips and influential music. Black and white children started mingling together just because they both wanted to enjoy this new style of music which helped them realize how similar they were. So in one way Rock N' Roll really helped end segregation in America.