0 a style of popular dance music that began in the 1950s in the US and has a strong, loud beat and simple repeated tunes
She came out of rock and roll and went into dance and then into drama.
Well, this rock and roll has got to stop.
From rock and roll on, the record becomes the primary text.
Currently, rock and roll concerts are still banned from being broadcast on state-run television.
Although the wait for rap inclusion as a category was shorter than the wait for rock and roll, the fight was arguably more bitter.
Similar to the resistance to inclusion experienced by rock and roll artists, rap musicians were initially actively excluded from the musical canon.
By the year 2003, the rap genre had six award categories, whereas rock and roll had eight awards despite peaking as a commercial musical genre nearly two decades earlier.
Competing with an entrenched big band and variety entertainment culture, early rock and roll performers adopted the vaudevillian emphasis upon 'working a crowd' in the city's town hall and ballrooms.
