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rock and roll
Also rock-and-roll, rock 'n' roll.
[f. vbl. phr. to rock and roll: see rock v.1 and roll v.2]
1. A type of popular dance-music characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies, often with elements of the ‘blues’. Cf. rhythm and blues s.v. rhythm n. 9 a.
[1934S. Clare (song-title) Rock and roll. 1951Davis & Hunter Rock Little Baby (song) 1 Rock little daddy, Work little daddy, Rock little daddy, Send me with a rock and roll. 1954Billboard 27 Nov. 29 (Advt.), Rockin' rollin' rhythmic! Ella Mae Morse with Big Dave and his orchestra. ] Ibid. 25 Dec. 18/4 Alan Freed..will sponsor his first ‘Rock and Roll Jubilee Ball’ at the St. Nicolas Arena here on January 14 and 15.1955N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 17 According to William E. Kelsey Jr., a business man who has organized such parties, ‘Rock 'n Roll’ is less to blame for the situation than are the alcoholic beverages taken straight by boys and girls from 16 to 19 years old. 1956Observer 30 Dec. 8/8 What else happened in 1956? Elvis Presley happened. So did Rock 'n' Roll. 1957D. Hague in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 113 The only blot on the ledger of good productive jazz is that monstrosity at first referred to as ‘Rhythm and Blues’ and now more popularly called ‘Rock and Roll’. 1959Times 27 June 7/3 ‘Rock 'n' Roll’ was so closely followed by Skiffle that the uninitiated were apt to confuse the two. 1962Listener 1 Nov. 703/2 The bulletins last night kept breaking into the rock-'n'-roll. 1968A. Lipson Russian Course 1 Hooliganism is defined [in the Soviet Union] as ‘behavior exhibiting disrespect for the social order’. Includes: scoffing at authority, playing rock and roll, wearing loud clothes, as well as rowdyism and petty criminal acts. 1969N. Cohn A Wop Bopa Loo Bop (1970) i. 15 In 1951, a DJ called Alan Freed launched a series of rhythm reviews at the Cleveland Arena... These shows featured coloured acts but were aimed at predominantly white audiences and, to avoid what he called ‘the racial stigma of the old classification’, Freed dropped the term R&B and invented the phrase Rock'n'Roll instead. 1974A. Shaw Rockin' '50s xii. 106 In a liner note for an End album Alan Freed's Top 15, Freed claimed that he began using the term ‘rock and roll’ in 1951. 1977Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 74/1 You know her life was saved by rock and roll. 1977Zigzag Aug. 5/1 Y'see I write about punk and you just want to read about something that'll scare your mum, I'm sure that elsewhere someone will let ya know it IS only rock'n'roll.
2. A dance to this music.
1958[see Charleston]. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. p. xxxii/5 Alex Moore leads beginners of any age through the mysteries of ballroom dancing, from the waltz..to the Mambo and ‘Rock 'n' Roll (Jive)’. 1960Master Detective July 83/2 Rock and Roll, that's what I'm good at. I got a terrific collection of platters.
3. attrib., as rock and roll ball, rock and roll band, rock and roll craze, rock and roll dance, rock and roll dancer, rock and roll group, rock and roll lyric, rock and roll music, rock and roll number, rock and roll party, rock and roll record, rock and roll revivalism, rock and roll revivalist, rock and roll riot, rock and roll road show, rock and roll singer, rock and roll song, rock and roll star, rock and roll station, rock and roll stuff, rock and roll tune.
1954Billboard 25 Dec. 18 (heading) Freed to sponsor ‘Rock & Roll’ ball. 1972Guardian 28 June 16/1 It [sc. the Rolling Stones] is the raunchiest, flashiest, most exciting rock 'n' roll band in existence. 1980Oxford Times 1 Feb. 23/3 On tracks like ‘Rock Music’ they seem to want to be a hard rock 'n' roll band.
1977Times 18 Apr. (Gramophone Suppl.) p. iv/3 By the 1950s..popular music was to make another revolution for the record business... The rock'n'roll craze symbolized in the figure of Elvis Presley.
1955Life 2 May 19, I am a teen-ager and I see no future in the rock 'n roll dance craze. 1966A. Young in Spero I. ii. 21 New things he'd worked out on drums for a Rock & Roll dance.
1957E. Paul That Crazy Amer. Music 243 The contemporary crop of rock and roll dancers include the young folks near the head or toward the foot of each class. 1968Crescendo Feb. 16/3 This is a rock and roll group!
1955Life 2 May 19, I think you need a teenager's view on rock 'n roll lyrics. 1956Look 26 June 47 A record spins, and the boys and girls react to rock 'n' roll lyrics with laughter, not involvement. 1956Newsweek 23 Apr. 32 Rock-and-roll music, he [sc. Asa Carter] said, ‘is the basic, heavy-beat music of Negroes. It appeals to the base in man, brings out animalism and vulgarity.’ 1958Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 39 Now that that age group [sc. teenagers] is concerned with ‘rock and roll’ music, the jazz audience still remains composed..of young people of college age.
1955Life 18 Apr. 168/2 Cash Box..challenged anybody to find smut in the top rock 'n roll numbers. 1969Listener 3 Apr. 470/3 He can get them swinging with a rock-and-roll number.
1955N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 17/3 A month ago Mr. Kelsey organized a ‘Rock'n Roll’ party for 2,000 at an armory here. 1957Gramophone Popular Record Catal. III. 157 Rock and roll party.
1955Life 18 Apr. 168 But parents and police were startled by other rock 'n roll records' words which were frequently suggestive and occasionally lewd. 1974Guardian 27 Mar. 12/6 Bill Haley's return to London for yet another bout of rock and roll revivalism.
1972Jazz & Blues Sept. 5/1 The Rock 'N' Roll revivalists.
1958Punch 19 Nov. 665/1 If in the fullness of time it sparks off a rock-'n'-roll riot in Hamburg or Tokyo they receive the news with a grunt. 1977Sounds 1 Jan. 2/4 The Glitter Band will no longer back him up and the old rock 'n' roll road show has been wound up.
1956Look 26 June 42 Lillian Briggs is a rock 'n' roll singer who also plays at the trombone. 1964Amer. Folk Music Occasional i. 16, I think a lot of Rock and Roll singers and blue singers, they really have the feeling exactly as we about gospel.
1955Life 18 Apr. 168 Variety..cranked out indignant stories about ‘leerics’ in the rock 'n roll or rhythm and blues songs. Ibid. (caption) Contingent of bounding dance fans at Easter show in Brooklyn's Paramount Theater greet roster of rock 'n roll stars performing latest songs on stage. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English vi. 261 A title from one of the rock and roll star's songs. 1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 46 Steve fumbles with the radio dial and finds a rock 'n' roll station.
1957New Yorker 26 Oct. 35/2, I do enjoy a good opera production... I don't enjoy this rock-'n'-roll stuff. 1972D. Haston In High Places iii. 45 Robin..was whistling a rock-'n-roll tune.
Hence as v. intr. (freq. considered as comprising two separate verbal units for the purpose of forming derivatives, etc.: see also rocking vbl. n.1 4), to play or dance to rock-and-roll music; rock and roller; rock and rolling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
[1951Davis & Hunter Rock Little Baby (song) 1 Rock little baby, Rock and roll, Rock me in rhythm, Satisfy my soul.] 1956Time (Overseas/Atlantic ed.) 18 June 37 Pop Record Maker Mitch Miller, no rock 'n' roller, sums up for the defense: ‘You can't call any music immoral.’ 1956Time 24 Sept. 48 My Boy Elvis..is a real rock 'n' roller. 1956N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Nov. 44/3 (heading) Europe rocks 'n' rolls. 1957Economist 21 Sept. 946 (Advt.), Fibreglass..baffles the chatter of rock-'n-rollers—and keeps the place warm as neatly as it keeps the peace. 1957Observer 15 Dec. 7/4 Gay shirts for the boys who skiffle and rock 'n' roll are equally hard to discover. 1958H. Maxwell Railway Mag. Miscellany 6 We can..for an hour or so Rock and Roll to a more thunderous and more significant beat than that which passes for Music with us today. 1959A. Wesker Roots i. 19 There's nothing wrong with rock 'n rolling, only God preserve me from the girl that can do nothing else! 1960News Chron. 29 Mar. 3/2 Rock 'n' roller Cliff Richard. 1960P. Hastings Sandals for my Feet i. vi. 61 Those rock and rolling Romeos. 1966Listener 20 Oct. 568/1 There were already a dozen or so young people rocking and rolling wildly to some vintage discs of Elvis Presley. 1976Weekend Echo (Liverpool) 4/5 Dec. 1/2 A concert by veteran rock-and-roller Bill Haley. 1977[see rock v.1 5 c]. 1977Sounds 9 July 18/1 Silly really that the American rock 'n' rolling public..should take Starz to its heart so readily. |