What Is Rock and Roll? (What Was?)

What Is Rock and Roll? (What Was?)

<b>Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.</b><br><br>Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle.<br><br>This entry in the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.