The Post-war Decade

Introduction

Rock and roll is a trendy music genre that instigated and developed in the United States during the 1940's and early 1950, mainly from a combination of blues, jazz and country music. Although the basics of rock and roll can be perceive sound in country album of the decade of 1930, and blues albums of the decade of 1920, rock and roll no acquired its name until the 1950's. The former form of rock and roll was rockabilly, which blended country and jazz-influenced folk music Appalachian folk and gospel. (Winkler, pp. 14-15)

Rock and roll is frequently discovered with the ...