What’s Wrong with Rock? (2): The Negro Influence

It was the music of the American Negro which brought about rock n roll! This fact becomes very clear as we trace the origin of rock music. But in addition to the evidence presented to you in our consideration of this subject in the two previous installments of Whats Wrong with Rock? we would like to further drive this point home with a number of quotations from other sources: In a very real sense rock was implicit in the music of the first African brought to America.” 1) Throughout the...