Rock branch
Rock and roll
Rock › Rock and roll
- Emerged
- 1954
- Origin
- Memphis / Chicago, USA
- Subgenres
- 6
Ground zero: twelve-bar blues sped up, piano hammered hard, lyrics about cars and girls. It made the electric guitar the defining instrument of the century.
- Heaviness
- 2
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 8
Key acts
- Chuck Berry
- Little Richard
- Elvis Presley
- Bo Diddley