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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.