what is the root of rock music?

Question

well i already know the answer, but i heard some quote from some overprivelaged girl saying Punk BROUGHT ROCK AND ROLL BACK TO ITS ROOTS, NEVER FORGET THAT.

i was under the impression the root of rock and roll was blues, black soul music, and all that good stuff. i just want your opinions. maybe i'm going crazy. either way, punk didn't freaking bring rock to its roots.

Answer 1

dude

rock died in the 80s and hasnt come back..

if you want to hear some early rock that is really good than check out gene vincent, thats about the time that rock really got its start..

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/LatestNewsGV.html

Answer 2

Acutally, both are true depending upon what school of thought you follow.

Yes, the origin of what is rock today comes from the blues and jazz music out of the 20's, 30's, and 40's, with a large helping of soul as well. In fact, many classic rock icons (The Stones, Dylan, Zep, Hendrix, etc) all got starts in blues or covering blues tracks. This love of blues and jazz developed into something that no one had ever heard before, something fresh. Elvis Presley, who got his start in gospel singing, was one of the first true rock performers. From their, they grew towards what is now know classically as "Rock 'N Roll" music.

However, in the sixties, when everything was all peace and love, music became very packaged and many rock bands sounded alike. So, when punk hit the scene (in the 1970's-this is not a new thing) it, like rock before, was something new. This newness inspired many performers to change the way they did things, thus revitalizing the rock genre of music.

To say that punk brought rock back to its roots, while technically true in that it was something new that revitalized the industry, is, in fact, a false statement perpetuated by fans or musicians of that particular medium of music. The genuine roots of rock go back much further than punk.

Answer 3

You are right. Most rock and roll has its roots in the blues. Most of the early rock bands, especially 60's European bands have been quoted as saying they were influenced by the blues. Led Zeppelin, for example, is well known for its reworking of many old blues tunes. Punk was just another generations rebellion against the music and political scene of that time. The way I look at it, punk was to rock what rap is to soul. An attitude.

Answer 4

Rock and roll is a mutt, which is perfect really. Definitely R&B, with a smattering some country. Other influences added in , but these two factors are the parents, one, largely black influence, one largely white influence. It's got family connections in gospel, jazz, cajun, and folk. That['s why it's been so influential and crossed so many barriers. Don't get me wrong, love the punk, and punk did bring R&R back from the brink, when it was tettering dangerously close to "dance music" and "pop", but punk just brought it back to where it should be, not really to its "roots".

Answer 5

I agree with you. The roots of rock & roll were blues, country music, and rockabilly, which was a sort of combination of country and soul.

Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley would probably care very little for the punk music that girl is talking about.

Answer 6

Rock incorporates all of the classic scales into its style and you come up with a hard edged hybrid that evolves even today into different sounds and classes. Rock music is like a file folder system in windows. It just drops down into sub folder after sub folder. Alternative, goth and Emo being the newest children of the original parent...

Rock & roll has its roots in both the rythum and blues scales, soul and the jazz scales and even has some classical music influences.
Everything comes from something else. "Nothing new under the sun."

Answer 7

Rock and Roll came from a fusion of musical cultures, and in turn its influence fed back to these cultures, a process of borrowings, influences that continues to develop rock music. Rock 'n' Roll had runaway success in the U.S. and brought rhythm and blues-influenced music to an international audience. Its success led to a dilution of the meaning of the term "rock and roll", as promoters were quick to attach the label to other commercial pop.

Rock 'n' Roll started off in the early-to-mid 1950s in the United States of America. African-American artists such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Fats Domino played predominantly to African American crowds. While these key early rockers were indisposed to racism, local authorities and dance halls were very much divided upon racial lines.

Mainstream acceptance of rock and roll came in the mid-1950s when what Bo Diddley describes as 'ofay dudes' (or Caucasians) signed to major labels and started covering their material. Elvis Presley and Bill Haley and the Comets, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash often toured and played together in dance halls and clubs across the US and Britain.

Towards the end of the 1950s "chessboard" crowds (both black and white patrons) would emerge at Rock and Roll concerts as fans discovered the original artists of the songs they knew from television and the radio, such as Little Richard's Tutti Frutti. The genre ignited British enthusiasm for rhythm and blues and the development of British rock. The 1960 name The Fabulous Silver Beatles was partly a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and was later shortened to The Beatles.

Answer 8

No---punk is just another offshoot of rock, and not a very good one. Rock roots lie deep in all previous American music:
Blues, Soul, Country, Rock-a-billy, and even some jazz.

Rock and Roll will really never die!

Answer 9

Not kidding you one bit here..., but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame people traced Rock and Roll roots back to the Voodoo music. I'm very serious. Hey, I was a bit taken back when I first heard it and checked out the report myself and it seems to be valid, not some hoax.

Answer 10

rock n' roll did kind of come from the old blues from the 20's, 30's, 40's as well as some C& W roots, but it is mostly blues based...the early blues guitarists influenced a lot of early rock musicians as well as modern day musicians as well...punk has not brought rock n' roll back to its roots as your friend has said...tell her to put down the inhalants...punk was derived from rock n' roll not the opposite...cheers

Answer 11

I think you are right and Blues and Soul brought about Rock and Roll. I think Rock then brought about Punk.