Rock And Roll

Word ROCK AND ROLL
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Definitions and meanings of "Rock And Roll"

What do we mean by rock and roll?

To dance to rock music. intransitive verb

To start doing something; begin. intransitive verb

Alternative spelling of rock and roll. noun

A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western noun

A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.

A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.

An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music (generally from the 1970s–1980s), and heavy metal bearing certain elements of this music, pertaining to unbridled enthusiasm, cynical regard for certain Christian and authoritarian bodies, and attitudes befitting some degree of youthful debauchery. This meaning is sometimes used as an exclamation, in describing traits of certain people, and so on.

The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.

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The word "rock-and-roll" in example sentences

The musicians who made rock-and-roll the chief rival of country music on the popular music charts during the 1960s and early 1970s were deeply influenced by black working-class culture. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

So there has always been a conflict between these power-seeking moral reformers and the “lowbrow” culture of saloons, immigrant and black resistance to work, shopping, dance halls, rock-and-roll, and the ever-advancing sexual revolution. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

If it helps to lighten things up, add this incantation: Let the gods shake-and-bake me with their spiritual rock-and-roll. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Prima chided his generation for attacking rock-and-roll and thereby renouncing its primitive past. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

By the following year, rock-and-roll had replaced jazz as the most dangerous of Western cultural products. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Like rock-and-roll, Hollywood movies and comic books received just as much scorn from American political leaders as they did from Eastern Bloc authorities. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

From 1946 to 1955, American cultural centers Amerikahäuser set up in West German cities to spread U.S. influence provided libraries with open stacks, lectures, classical music concerts, and showings of educational films but did not show Hollywood movies or sponsor concerts of jazz or rock-and-roll. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Welcome to the rock-and-roll spirited movement that has no reason. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

A 1959 report to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party showed that rock-and-roll protests, illegal trips to West Germany, acts of “outrageous instigation” against the GDR leadership, and youth crime had all increased rapidly. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The most influential of the new dances, which scholars cite as the sources of both swing dance and the gyrations at early rock-and-roll dances, were the turkey trot, the fox-trot, the Charleston, and the Texas Tommy. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The best-known offshoot of the rock-and-roll movement, the hippies of the 1960s and 1970s, are well known for their libertine attitudes but, ironically, they found themselves in the same contradictory place as their redneck archenemies. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Several members of a House subcommittee investigating rock-and-roll in 1959 declared their intentions to save the public from the “horrible things” being played on the radio. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

But no music has been the object of more apocalyptic fears than rock-and-roll in 1950s America. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Not only did this “vulgar” and “decadent” culture continue to spread, but as the 1950s ended, it mutated into something even worse: rock-and-roll. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

In fact, as Uta Poiger has pointed out, Eastern Bloc authorities learned to attack jazz, rock-and-roll, and Hollywood from others. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

He went on a recruiting trip that had aspects of a rock-and-roll tour. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)

In it, Paisley also shares his memories about the musicians in Country, blues and rock-and-roll who have inspired him throughout his life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whether you're talking jazz, disco or rock-and-roll, in American music rags-to-riches is the ruling narrative. ❋ Post (2011)

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