Rock and roll

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rock and roll
strong rhythmic popular music that evolved from jazz and the blues


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Rock and roll
Rock 'n' Roll (short for Rock and Roll), is a genre of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the world. It later spawned the various sub-genres of what is now called simply 'rock music'.
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rock and roll
Noun
1. 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."
(synonym) rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock, rock music
(hypernym) popular music, popular music genre
(hyponym) heavy metal
(part-meronym) backbeat
(class) backbeat

 
rock-and-roll
Noun
1. 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."
(synonym) rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, rock and roll, rock, rock music
(hypernym) popular music, popular music genre
(hyponym) heavy metal
(part-meronym) backbeat
(class) backbeat


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Rock and Roll
rock and roll, strong rhythmic popular music that evolved from jazz and the blues

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rock and roll (m)
n. rock and roll

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