who thinks black invented Rock & Roll?

Question

This is no racist question...I know thats the first thing that popped in your head tho
...I just wanna know what their/your sources are and show me evidence...the last I heard
the Rolling Stones,The Beatles,Led Zeppelin etc. were the pioneers of rock & roll...I mean
Jimi Hendrix was the **** but he didnt invent it...thanks

who thinks *blacks* invented rock & roll

Answer 1

R&R music,not the term,was created by blacks.
Normally,by most fans of R&R the first hit was 'rocket88'
by one of Ike Turners band, Jackie Brenston in 51.

This is an excerpt from a site

Now that the music had arrived, all it needed was a name. R&B (coined in 1949) was too broad a term, because R&B was a category which included all forms of black music except for jazz and gospel. Anything else was considered R&B, regardless of the actual musical style. It could be a ballad, old-style jump blues, crooners like the Ink Spots, blues shouters, or anything else, it would be classified as R&B. But this rocking music was new and revolutionary, and therefore it needed a new name, so the disc jockeys, led by a Cleveland DJ named Alan Freed, started calling it rock and roll. This was in 1951, and many DJ's followed suit, such as Waxie Maxie in DC, Hunter Hancock in LA, and Porky Chedwick in Pittsburgh. By 1953 the new term was becoming widely used, and also was being used to market the music to a wider audience beyond the R&B market. Many white people who remember the early 50's think that 1954 was the year that rock and roll started. But no, that's just the year they first became aware of it, in crossover tunes like "Sh-Boom" by the Chord Cats, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" by Big Joe Turner, "Earth Angel" by the Penguins, "Gee" by the Crows, (recorded in 1953), "Rock Around The Clockt" by Bill Haley and the Comets, and some of the first Doo Wop tunes to cross over from R & B. It's also the year Elvis first recorded rock and roll, although these Sun records only gave him local fame, and he didn't actually get famous until RCA picked him up in 1955. Black people who remember the early 50's tell a different story.

The source site gives a lot of information

Answer 2

The Stones nor the Beatles invented it. It started in the fifties with the combination of the blacks R&B and Jazz with the Gospel singers and the invention of the electric guitar. Go to the Rock and Roll hall of fame in Cleveland Ohio, they have the whole history from start to finish, Alan Freed coined the phase Rock and Roll, but that was with Elvis and the rest of the fifty era musicians. Long before the English envasion of the sixties.

Answer 3

Just because he popularized it to white people does not say he was better than chuck berry and little Richard, it just means he made it big, which he did. Chuck berry probably didn't make it big because he was black and back then America was more racist. Im sure there were rock and roll musicians before chuck berry and Little Richard, but they weren't popular enough to be credited with inventing it. by "invented" people mean made it popular which Elvis did. So Elvis invented it, but of the first few he was not the best.

Answer 4

"While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, “Maybellene.”

Before Elvis Presley sang "Hound Dog," Big Mama Thornton had house-trained that canine. Before Bill Haley & the Comets popularized "Shake, Rattle & Roll," Big Joe Turner had done all three. The Crewcut's "Sh-Boom" was originally sung by The Chords, and The Beatles' "Roll Over Beethoven" was rocked by Chuck Berry well before the boys from Liverpool "invaded" America.

It continues to be the biggest lie in the music industry - that Whites created rock `n' roll. From history books to rock-oriented cafes, from the pretentious Graceland mansion to the corner record store, White rock `n' roll artists have been immortalized and credited with creating the multibillion-dollar rock music industry.

For more info on this article, go here:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-76285243.html

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/chuck-berry

Answer 5

The first rock & roll album is still debated to this date so there really is no general consensus of who exactly invented rock & roll. And those were only the ones who had commercial success. It likely began with some unknown band that we'll never know.

Answer 6

Oh god, rock and roll goes wayyy back.... the origin consists of a fusion of elements from both country and blues. Blacks were a huge part of the process, providing most of the blues aspect. Actually, many white artists throughout history gained fame through covers of black artists' original material, most of this unknown to the public.

Answer 7

Chuck Berry - The Coasters - Little Richard - The Shields -
The Olympics - The Cadillacs - Frankie Lyman - Jackie Wilson -The O'Jays - Bo Diddley -

Answer 8

Rock and roll is widely considered to be a fusion of country (predominately white) and R&B (predominately black). Some people even go as far as to say it's country music played with a beat.

Answer 9

rock was a mix of blues and country. its black and white music that made others change it all up

Answer 10

The devil invented rock n roll.