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/ˈɹɑkənˈɹoʊɫ/
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NOUN
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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'n'roll In A Sentence
- There is a school of thought that says rock'n'roll is a busted flush, a sound stuck in a repetitive cycle. Times, Sunday Times
- The puny flatscreen telly doesn't cut the rock'n'roll mustard. Times, Sunday Times
- Expect Death Metal Darkness voyage from the deepest caves of the earth to the last cosmic black holes; roots of extreme metal hermetism and black psychedelism, dealing about the magical links between Music, Death, primal elements, spirits, myths, ancient surrealistic rituals of Sound … and rock'n'roll! Metal Underground.com
- There is a school of thought that says rock'n'roll is a busted flush, a sound stuck in a repetitive cycle. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet by marrying lyrics that name-checked Ezra Pound and TS Eliot as well as Ma Rainey and Beethoven to a rock'n'roll backbeat, he revolutionised popular music.
- Here he shows that subscribing to Rock'n'Roll values commands respect, as it can teach honesty by example.
- Rock'n'roll has become so commercialised and safe since punk.
- Jerry Lee Lewis was a rock'n'roll singer.
- Their supposedly ‘fun’ pieces on sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll virtually never tell me anything the mainstream isn't already yapping in my ear, thus they are no fun.
- Rock'n'roll groups appeared on bills along with trad groups and pop singers - even some modern jazz made it into the charts.