Rap And Rock ‘n’ Roll

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whites was the only way to introduce new music made by the black artists. Here is a quote about how new music created by black artists were treated. When rock ‘n’ roll was sang by black artists, our society did accept it as music. They saw it as devil’s music. When Elvis, king of rock, sang rock ‘n’ roll, the music black artists sang became blues not rock ‘n’ roll. Whites didn’t wanted to admit that they enjoyed listening to black’s music so they changed rock ‘n’ roll into blues when black artists sang it.
“Invented, as many popular cultural historians agree, by Chuck Berry, who blended such black musical forms as gospel, the blues, and bop with country music, rock ‘n’ roll in the early 1950s was frequently denounced as the devil’s music, especially in the southern states where Elvis got his start. White musicians like Carl Perkins and Bill Halley adopted, and adapted, the new music, but when they did, black rock got reclassified as rhythm and blues, which then became code for ...

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