1950s: rock n roll music

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It's origins: Blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, boogie-woogie, country, jazz, electric blues, jump blues, Chicago blues, swing, folk, Western swing. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. View wiki