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rock and roll see rock music .

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

rock and roll (also rock 'n' roll) • n. a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums. DERIVATIVES: rock and roll·er n.

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rock and roll Form of popular music. Originating in the USA in the early 1950s, it appealed largely to a white audience who found its forerunner, rhythm and blues, inaccessible. It was popularized by Bill Haley and the film Rock Around the Clock (1956).

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