"grew out of an amalgam of the blues, gospel and r&b (the old sort) - essentially it found popularity when this essentially black music was repackaged for a mainstream white audience in 1950s "
Just thought I'd throw this out there, Technically blacks weren't considered Americans by the American population at that time, separate but equal .. I think not. And depending on what musical theory class you’ve taken and who you are, Rock came from Swing and Jazz songs, which still was black music, but it’s not Soul .. Or R&B, blues maybe. When rock did get famous it wasn't really by them. It was by the people like Elvis, but anyways. Arctic Monkeys go by Rock/pop, not just rock. And one culture can’t completely claim a form of music, music in itself is not even for the person who wrote it, because everyone can get their own different meanings out of it. So it doesn't at all matter /where/ it came from. If you look at music from the UK compared to music from The States, the forms of "rock" sound completely different from each other. I mean, how could the UK have a fall out boy, and when would The States ever get something like The Futureheads, it's too different. There for not the same, at all. I mean, .. if you go by that, The Beatles want to copy Americans, even though they sound nothing like Elvis, you can’t even put some of this into a genre of music, because nothing will sound exactly how they’re suppose to.
"grew out of an amalgam of the blues, gospel and r&b (the old sort) - essentially it found popularity when this essentially black music was repackaged for a mainstream white audience in 1950s "
Just thought I'd throw this out there, Technically blacks weren't considered Americans by the American population at that time, separate but equal .. I think not. And depending on what musical theory class you’ve taken and who you are, Rock came from Swing and Jazz songs, which still was black music, but it’s not Soul .. Or R&B, blues maybe. When rock did get famous it wasn't really by them. It was by the people like Elvis, but anyways. Arctic Monkeys go by Rock/pop, not just rock. And one culture can’t completely claim a form of music, music in itself is not even for the person who wrote it, because everyone can get their own different meanings out of it. So it doesn't at all matter /where/ it came from. If you look at music from the UK compared to music from The States, the forms of "rock" sound completely different from each other. I mean, how could the UK have a fall out boy, and when would The States ever get something like The Futureheads, it's too different. There for not the same, at all. I mean, .. if you go by that, The Beatles want to copy Americans, even though they sound nothing like Elvis, you can’t even put some of this into a genre of music, because nothing will sound exactly how they’re suppose to.