The electrical rebellion of the first ‘rock’n’roll’ | Babelia
Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop Alop-Bam-Boom. Seen this way, it is almost illegible. It sounds like a strange dialect from some remote part of the planet, or like the encrypted message of an alien fallen from the sky, and something of that thought those who first heard it in the voice of Little Richardback in 1955, when the world was still in black and white. But most could not resist. Without losing its genuine and amazing strength, the cry of the song Tutti Frutti is today the most famous in the history of popular music, the first hallmark of the rock’n’roll, the words that opened wide and without warning the doors of youth culture.
The prestigious musicologist Charlie Gillet wrote in his fundamental book Rock history. The sound of the city that he rock’n’roll perhaps it was the first form of popular culture that unreservedly celebrated the most criticized features of urban life. ” Traits such as the celebration of youth, sexual liberation, drug use, the coexistence of black and white ... As an exciting and liberating sound, anchored in the electric guitar, the Rock And Roll, Through pioneers like Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry or Ike Turner, it was a trigger for a new artistic rebellion. An improvised rebellion and without strategy in between but that led to a mental and moral transformation in the new generations from the second half of the 20th century.
He rock’n’roll from its beginnings in the early years of the 1950s, it demanded an active audience to participate in this dynamic attitude of life, and its songs were the best reflection of demand. Devilish rhythms, persuasive sounds, irreverent lyrics, new aesthetics ...
This song playlist unceremoniously celebrates the rock’n’roll of first school, the original, the philosopher's stone on which the Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Clash or Nirvana would later exist. It is important to note that there are several black musicians on this list. Because one of the most fascinating results of the popularity of the rock’n’roll it was that the presence and, at the same time, the number of black singers increased. Without them, the rock’n’roll it would never have been possible. As Muddy Waters, father of Chicago electric blues, put it, "Blues had a son and called him rock’n’roll ”. By the way, we must distinguish between rock’n’roll Y Rock And Roll. The first term is the original, used at the beginning of this groundbreaking sound and that made the streets dance. The second is the music so named after the rock’n’roll it became extinct for many in the late 1950s and resulted in many other glorious things.
