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The 64 pages that link to Rock and roll, each with the reason it gives.

• Rock musicBroader topic: Its early sound and audience established the foundation from which rock music expanded.

• Rhythm and bluesRelated: Early rock and roll drew heavily on rhythm and blues songs, performers, and rhythmic styles.

• Pop musicRelated: Its rise made youth-oriented popular music a dominant force in postwar culture.

• Popular musicBroader topic: Its rise made youth-oriented popular music a dominant cultural force.

• Elvis PresleyNarrower topic: Presley’s popularity helped bring the emerging genre to a mass audience.

• African American musicRelated: Its development drew heavily on Black musical styles, performers, and recordings.

• MotownNarrower topic: Motown’s pop-oriented soul grew within the broader transformation of postwar popular music.

• Twelve-bar bluesRelated: Many early rock-and-roll songs adapted the twelve-bar blues progression.

• RockabillyNarrower topic: Rockabilly became one of the early forms through which rock and roll reached a broad audience.

• American popular musicRelated: Its rise made youth-oriented music a central force in the U.S. record business.

• The Ed Sullivan ShowRelated: The program brought rock-and-roll performers into a mainstream family television setting.

• Crossover musicBroader topic: Its rise carried previously segregated musical influences into a mass youth market.

• Great American SongbookCompared with: Its rise shifted popular song toward new sounds and youth-oriented performance.

• BackbeatBroader topic: Rock and roll made the backbeat a defining feature of mass popular music.

• SkaRelated: American rhythm and blues and rock-and-roll records supplied models for ska’s bands and arrangers.

• Chuck BerryNarrower topic: Berry became one of the musicians who established the genre’s sound and songwriting conventions.

• Brill BuildingNarrower topic: The Brill Building scene supplied songs to the expanding postwar rock-and-roll market.

• Doo-wopNarrower topic: Doo-wop became one of rock and roll's major vocal-group forms during the genre's rise.

• Mick JaggerNarrower topic: Jagger’s career illustrates how rock and roll developed into a durable global performance culture.

• Boogie-woogieRelated: Boogie-woogie’s driving piano rhythms helped shape early rock-and-roll sounds.

• Swing eraCompared with: Its rise accompanied the decline of big-band swing as the center of youth-oriented popular music.

• Hard rockNarrower topic: Hard rock developed from rock and roll’s amplified bands and rhythmic drive.

• Garage rockNarrower topic: Its compact songs and driving rhythms supplied garage rock’s basic musical vocabulary.

• Chess RecordsNarrower topic: Chess releases by artists such as Chuck Berry helped shape the genre’s early sound.

• Little RichardNarrower topic: Richard's recordings helped establish the genre's sound, performance style, and cultural reach.

• Yé-yéNarrower topic: Yé-yé grew partly from French performers’ adoption of this American-led musical style.

• MerseybeatNarrower topic: Its energetic rhythms and guitar sound supplied a major foundation for Merseybeat.

• Pop rockNarrower topic: Its early guitar-led songs helped establish the sound pop rock later softened and polished.

• Tenor saxophoneRelated: Tenor saxophone solos and riffs became defining sounds in early rock and roll.

• Transistor radioRelated: Portable radios helped young audiences hear and share the music outside home.

• Folk revivalCompared with: Its amplified sound and youth-market appeal contrasted with acoustic revival performance.

• Alan FreedNarrower topic: Freed helped establish this music as a national youth phenomenon.

• Rock bandNarrower topic: Its early guitar-led groups helped establish the rock band’s basic format.

• Traditional popCompared with: Its youthful audience and amplified sound challenged traditional pop's established market.

• Adriano CelentanoNarrower topic: American rock and roll supplied the sound and performance model Celentano adapted in Italy.

• Bobby DarinNarrower topic: Darin first became famous through energetic rock-and-roll songs.

• Lou ReedNarrower topic: Reed transformed rock and roll’s song forms with dissonance and unsparing lyrics.

• Silent GenerationRelated: Silent Generation performers and audiences helped establish the music that transformed postwar popular culture.

• 1950sRelated: Its youth audience made popular music a visible marker of generational change.

• Charley PattonRelated: Patton’s rhythmic drive and vocal force belong to an early lineage later absorbed into rock.

• Jerry Lee LewisNarrower topic: Lewis’s career crossed the boundary between early rock-and-roll fame and later country success.

• Johnny B. GoodeNarrower topic: The song condenses the genre’s guitar-led sound and youthful momentum.

• Led Zeppelin IVBroader topic: Its direct, driving sound supplies the album’s clearest salute to early rock.

• Ritchie ValensNarrower topic: Valens recast a traditional melody within this emerging genre’s sound and market.

• Sister Rosetta TharpeNarrower topic: Tharpe’s sound helped establish musical elements later central to rock and roll.

• Willie DixonNarrower topic: Dixon’s songs and blues arrangements became source material for generations of rock performers.

• Clyde McPhatterNarrower topic: McPhatter’s powerful tenor and rhythmic delivery helped carry R&B vocal-group sounds into early rock and roll.

• Eddie CochranNarrower topic: Cochran’s rockabilly recordings helped establish this broader genre’s sound.

• Exile on Main St.Narrower topic: The album reshapes rock and roll through blues, gospel, country, and soul.

• Fats DominoNarrower topic: Domino’s hits helped make rhythm-and-blues sounds central to the new style.