Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock ‘n’ roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s primarily from a combination of African-American genres such as blues jump blues jazz and gospel music together with Western swing and country music.
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