So today, we’ll take one small step toward remedying that by briefly discussing five of the best rock & roll songs released by women in the 1950s. In chronological order... “Whole Lotta Shakin ...

Louis in the documentary, Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll! It was the same theater that turned him away as a child because he was Black. See An Exploration of Smithsonian Collections Featuring African ...

On the basis of simply counting heads, rock music surpasses even film as the ... Holly and Elvis Presley are the two seminal figures of Fifties rock 'n' roll, the place where modern rock culture ...

Rock music first grew out of the rock’n’roll movement of the 1940s and 50s, which itself was inspired by country and African-American rhythm and blues from the 1920s and 30s. Even from its ...