What Is Rock and Roll?

<b>Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.</b> <p/>Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres Western swing and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion language and lifestyle. <p/>This entry in the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.