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Nov 21, 2016 5:40:58 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 21, 2016 5:40:58 GMT
This a lexicon of Black Rock musicians that spans from the original creators of the Rock & Roll genre, beginning in 1940's, and includes contemporaneous (ethnically) Black Rock musicians. Contrary to what is often depicted, Rock & Roll actually began in the 1940's with notable musicians such as Louis Jordan, Goree Carter, Fats Domino, Wynonie Harris, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The nomenclatures of Jump Blues and Blues Shouters are often , somewhat inaccurately, generically used to described their individuals styles. Blues is definitely a component of their music. When listening to many of these songs it also becomes readily apparent that these songs are undeniably early Rock & Roll. In addition to a strong backbeat 4/4 time, rolling Blues rhythm and Blues scale melody, these songs created the double entendres that are stable of Rock & Roll, and were the first songs to include the vernacular usage of the words "Rock and Roll".
Mission
To empirically and factually document the impetus, history and evolution of the original Rock & Roll creators and ethnically Black "Rock musicians". To continue their legacies and to foster and illuminate new generations of Black Rock musicians.
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