Beginning of Rock & Roll

Beginning of Rock & Roll

By EVAN WHITE

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Rock and Roll has been described as the merger of which two genres?

• Country

• Blues

• Rhythm & Blues

• Jazz

​- Fats Domino

" Rock & Roll is nothing but Rhythm & Blues and we've been playing it for years down in New Orleans. " 

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What is the name of the controversial style of music in which white men performed derogatory songs in black-face?

• Minstrel Shows

• Black Shows

• Race Records

• Race Music

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Which of the following were white artists who appropriated (repurposed) Black music for white audiences?

• Elvis Presley

• Buddy Holly

• The Beatles

• Fats Domino

Released in 1956

Elvis Presley

Released in 1952

Big Mama Thornton

Hound Dog

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Released 1962

Pat Boone

Released 1957

Little Richard

Tutti Frutti

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Released in 1981

Soft Cell

Released in 1964

Gloria Jones

Tainted Love

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