The History of Rock 'N' Roll

I watched The History of Rock'n'Roll in these 2 days. After watching the first 4 episodes I'm really moved and understand lots of things that confused me before. These documentary films fill the blankets of the Rock'n' Roll history in my head. I really love rock music, however, constantly I can't understand the spirits behind the music for the lack of history knowledge. What is rock music? Why does rock become like this? Why there are so many people just crazy about the music all around the world? What does rock music bring to the people in Europe, America even the whole world?

Rock'n'Roll routed in the culture of blacks in America which developed from blues and R&B in late 1940s and the early 1950s. At first the rock music was just popular in black people. A few white people were attracted when some fabulous early black rock'n'roller performed the amazing music. Then some white American rock singer, like Elvis Presley made the rock'n'roll popular among the teenagers in 1950s. The parents were scared. They just didn't want their children touch anything about black people.

When black people performed this kind of music, the parents said okey. Because they didn't have so much influence on the white teenagers. But when Elvis Presley came out and started to play rock'n'toll the teenagers were crazy about him even copied his style. They just do a lot of things their parents never did. The parents then got furious and organized together to resist rock music. They accused rock music created a bad influence on teenagers and exerted great pressure upon the media and music companies not to put rock music on TV.

But nothing could barricaded the progress of rock music. Rock music actrually helped cease the barriers between white and black people. People didn't care about who you were, just listened what you were singing. Even we can say, there are no blues, R&B, Rock'n'Roll, just music. Everything is about music. This is the magic rock'n'roll created.

Then it came to 1960s. The beatles in England, Bob Dylan in America and plenty of fantastic rock bands showed up. All kinds of complicated movements including American civil rights movement inspired the musicians. We can see the pavement of the progress clearly in all kinds of fields. That gave us excitements today.

The History of Rock'n'Roll is not finished. I'll keep study and spread it.