This is a beginning to the basic understanding of the history of 50s rock n roll. Many popular artists from this genre include Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Bill Haley & The Comets and more.
The sociologist Simon Frith identifies rock and roll as a hybrid music, which emerged in the American outh if the mid-1950s as a grafting of puritanical 'white' country and western lyrics on to sexually explicit 'black' blues rhythms.
Pity Peggy Sue, by Barbara Bradby and Brian Torode
Rock n' Roll... was a music-industry product, calculated purely in terms of entertainment value and based on... western swing, boogie and various rhythm and blues playing styles. The only difference was that this music was presented as a caricature of itself... Rock n' roll represented a common way of thinking and feeling on the part of a whole generation of middle-class American youth...
Rock music: a musical-aesthetic study, by Peter Wicke
Buddy Holly & The Crickets performing "Peggy Sue" in 1957.
Chuck Berry performing "Roll Over Beethoven" (unfortunately I think this specific performance is from the early 60s, hopefully I'll find a 50s version in the future.)
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