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HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL DANCING
Dance styles have always followed musical trends and none more so than the dance which was to become Rock ? ... Roll. While we tend to think of the Rock ? ... Roll phenomenon as beginning in the fifties, the dance actually started emerging more than two decades earlier in the USA. ... By the fifties, the music was no longer as smooth and polished as Awing but it had huge popular appeals, this music was Rock ? ... Roll. ...
ROCK AND ROLL AND ITS IMAGE
Bill Haley was surprise when his record hit with Rock Around The Clock, Hollywood then start to make a movie using the same name in 1956. ... Rock and Roll? ... Once again, the Europeans were left with the term "Rock n Roll" after the Americans stopped using it, so that 50s Jitterbug is known interchangeably in Europe as "Jive" or "Rock n Roll", whereas in America a compromise definition evolved which described all the Rock music from the 1960s onwards as "Rock n Roll" as in the Stones "Its Only Rockn Roll But I Like it!"
50s Rock n Roll soon acquired the "bad boy" image of the troubled teenagers of the post war generation gap, which they could flamboyantly indulge in, as they actually were one of the first groups of teenagers in history to have considerable spending power.
Approximate Word count = 986
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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