American rock there was a Garage rock/post-punk revival. The development of digital technology led to the development of new forms of digital electronic rock. The foundations of American rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music; in addition to country and western. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the
The History of Rock and Roll contents The History of Rock and Roll contents The History of Rock and Roll is a radio documentary on rock and roll music, originally syndicated in 1969, and again in 1978 and 1981. It is currently distributed as a 2 1/2 minute short feature on internet networks. This list below reflects the contents of the more widely heard 1978 version of "The History of Rock & Roll". The "time sweep" is a 53-minute collage of number one hits from the Rock & Roll era. The original 1969 "History of Rock and Roll" timesweep closed with the final measures of the Beatles'