Rock and roll isn't just music—it's been the soundtrack to our lives for generations. Since bursting onto the scene in the ...

“We’re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll music,” says Penny ... other parts of the South adopted the instrument and evolved blues music from spirituals and field hollers.

Hail! Rock and Roll! It was the same theater that turned him away as a child because he was Black. See An Exploration of Smithsonian Collections Featuring African American Music from Smithsonian Music ...

Long the topic of debate as to rock 'and' roll's origins, one Delta blues legend Howlin' Wolf record has been put forward as the genre's first possible cut.