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a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.
How To Use rock and roll In A Sentence
- If you're keeping it traditional and not using Halloween as a three day extended party, you can get down on the actual holiday with the Latin funk of Pimps of Joytime and Nayas at Rock and Roll Hotel. Nightlife agenda
- Well, it wasn't rock and roll as you would recognise it but there was certainly enough power and decibels to give the lugholes a good stinging.
- When I was eight years old I started my first dance school doing disco, rock and roll and also ballroom and latin.
- Just don't expect rock and roll in the strictest sense, as they're a little folksier than that. Fave Five: Songs of the Summer
- Just as rock and roll is here to stay, so are the academics devoted to studying it and all the other sounds contained under the ‘popular music’ rubric.
- Crumb has never made any bones about his hatred for rock, and rock and roll, and indeed anything that wasn't pressed on shellac by desperately obscure bluesmen and jazzers in the twenties and thirties.
- He melded country music with blues to create rock and roll.
- They have simply misunderstood what rock and roll is.
- The rock and roll ignites the excitement of the audience.
- His book calls on its audience to return to ‘spirit, love adventure, poetry, incense, kicky language, and rock and roll’.
