Through music, communities pass on stories of history, hardships ... influential on the modern world as the music of the African-American community. For hundreds of years, the most popular ...

Rock music first grew out of the rock’n’roll movement of the 1940s and 50s, which itself was inspired by country and African-American rhythm and blues from the 1920s and 30s. Even from its ...

It’s the music of America, for sure. And it’s an amalgam. It’s everything. Some people wanted to say that it was “America’s only original pure music.” Well, no, it’s blues.