rock 'n' rolln.adj.

Brit.

/ˌrɒk (ə)n(d) ˈrəʊl/, U.S.

/ˈˌrɑk ən ˈroʊl/

Forms: 1900s– rock and roll, 1900s– rock 'n' roll, 1900s– rock 'n roll, 1900s– rock n roll, 1900s– rock & roll. Also with capital initials, esp. in the first and third element.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to rock and roll at rock v.¹ Phrases 1.

Etymology: < to rock and roll at rock v.¹ Phrases 1 (although this is first attested slightly later in the relevant sense: see rock v.¹ Phrases 1b), probably with reference to the motion of the body when dancing.It is possible that there may originally also have been some allusion to uses of each verb as euphemisms for sexual intercourse; compare rock v.¹ 9a, although rock v.¹ was apparently also apprehended early on as referring to music and dance (compare rock v.¹ 9b, 10a, 10b). Compare also roll v.² 8, roll n.² 6e, and perhaps also jelly roll n. at jelly n.¹ Compounds 2. With sense A. 2b compare earlier use as the name of a dance performed to swing music, invented by Irene Castle in 1939 and more commonly known as the Castle Rock and Roll during its brief period of popularity:1939 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. 13 (headline) Irene Castle devises new dancing steps. She demonstrates ‘Rock and Roll’ to Dancing Masters' class.1939 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 12 Nov. e2/5 (caption) This is the ‘Rock and Roll’ dance creation. Popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed, who broadcast rhythm and blues music to a multiracial audience from 1951, and later promoted various dances and concerts featuring rhythm and blues performers.

A. n. Originally U.S.

1. A vigorous and compelling rhythm with a strong beat, as in jazz, swing, or rhythm and blues music; (also) music featuring such a rhythm; lively dance music. rare.Falling into disuse after the development of sense A. 2. See also Compounds 1.

ΚΠ

1938 K. Werner & S. Werner Rock it for Me (song) 5 It's true that once upon a time, The op'ra was the thing, But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme, So won't you satisfy my soul with a rock an' roll.

1950 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 21 Apr. 2 (advt.) Wabash Avenue..the first lady of rock and roll..and the rollicking, roaring street she rocked to fame! It's the zingiest..swingiest..singiest musical hit in years!

1951 E. Davis & A. Hunter Rock, Little Baby (song) 1 Rock little daddy, Rock and roll, Rock me in rhythm, Satisfy my soul, Rock little daddy, Send me with a rock and roll.

a. A style of popular music originating in the southern United States, largely as an amalgam of rhythm and blues, country music, and Chicago electric blues (typically played by Southern musicians) and characterized by a heavily accentuated backbeat and simple melodies and structures; (later also more generally) rock music; = rock n.³ 2b.Rock 'n' roll is often (esp. in the early recordings) based around a twelve-bar structure, typically featuring an instrumentation of guitar, double bass, and drums, with the snare drum providing the characteristic backbeat. Later general use referring to rock music usually involves a self-conscious reference to rock 'n' roll as the musical genre from which this evolved.Some attributive uses (see Compounds) show a transition between sense A. 1 and this sense, often with reference to the radio shows and concerts of Alan Freed (see note in etymology, and e.g. quots. 1954² at Compounds 1, 1954 for rock 'n' roll ball n. at Compounds 2a). His 1953 ‘Biggest Rhythm and Blues Show’ tour is often regarded as the first major rock 'n' roll tour, although many of the performers featured would now typically be classified as rhythm and blues vocalists. From this time, the term rock 'n' roll became popular with white audiences, esp. teenagers (cf. rock 'n' roll craze n. at Compounds 3).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock

rock 'n' roll music1945

r'n'r1955

rock 'n' roll1955

rock1956

1955 N.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.

1956 Observer 30 Dec. 8/8 What else happened in 1956? Elvis Presley happened. So did Rock 'n' Roll.

1957 Cape Times 17 Jan. 7/1 Rock and roll has affiliations with our own vastraps and tiekiedraais to which Coloured bands used to thrum the beat.

1962 Listener 1 Nov. 703/2 The bulletins last night kept breaking into the rock-'n'-roll.

1968 A. 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.

1970 L. Reed Rock 'n' Roll in Pass thru Fire (2000) 69 She started shakin' to that fine fine music You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll.

1977 Zigzag 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.

1996 R. Niles et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 74/1 Little Richard discovered religion, renounced rock'n'roll, and refused to complete the southern leg of a US tour.

2008 Magnet No. 79. 123 The whole ban-burning package combines blues, metal and rock'n'roll for what could be a soundtrack for a deadly gunfight in Dodge City.

b. A style of dance performed to this music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [noun]

rag dance1892

rag1899

jazzing1917

shey-sheyc1920

juking1937

boogie1940

rocking1948

rock 'n' rolling1956

rock 'n' roll1958

monkey1963

ska1964

boogaloo1965

rocksteady1967

reggae1968

skank1974

salsa1975

skanking1976

Macarena1995

1958 Times 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)’.

1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xi. 139 The Charleston and Rock 'n Roll; is there so much difference after all?

1960 Master Detective July 83/2 Rock and Roll, that's what I'm good at. I got a terrific collection of platters.

1983 J. Hennessy Torvill & Dean 147 Rock 'n' roll could also include skating movements and music that embraced the jive and swing.

2006 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 9/4 Researchers..studied the effects of energetic salsa, rock'n'roll and Cuban ‘danzon’.

B. adj.

Having the style or (supposed) characteristics of a rock musician; hedonistic, extravagant; ‘cool’. Also: characteristic of rock music.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [adjective] > rock

rock 'n' roll1976

1976 M. Bragg Christmas Child 22 ‘We're goin' in for a drink,’ he said, his rock-n-roll stiff black quiff shining under the street light.

1978 Chicago Tribune 10 Dec. vi. 5/2 Elvis was about as rock and roll as I got.

1985 San Diego Union (Electronic ed.) 24 May d13 This isn't going to sound very rock 'n' roll, but when I come home, I enjoy..mowing the lawn.

1989 Philadelphia Inquirer (Electronic ed.) 5 Mar. You can jump off the stage. It can be as rock-and-roll as you want it to be.

1998 Guitar Player Nov. 53/3 It starts off as a very rock-and-roll solo... But then, here come the jazz chords.

2004 Independent 24 June (Review section) 4/2 Meadow voles are the rock'n'roll voles—shockingly promiscuous when mating, and strangers to commitment.

2008 Esquire Mar. 106/1 Tea is so rock'n'roll these days; according to one rumour, Led Zep's rider for the O2 gig asked for nothing more than a decent brew of English Breakfast.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (originally in sense A. 1, later in sense A. 2, with quots. in 1954–5 showing a transition between the senses: see note at sense A. 2).Some of the more established compounds of this type are entered separately at Compounds 2, Compounds 3.

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1938 N.Y. Times 5 June e10/2 (caption) ‘Rock-and-Roll’ men. Band leaders Benny Goodman (left) and Gene Krupa—Their likes are not to be heard abroad.

1945 Billboard 10 Mar. 66/2 It's rock and roll rhythm all the way, with some race blues wordage added by the maestro.

1952 A. O'Day (title on record label) Rock 'n roll blues.

1953 Los Angeles Sentinel 20 Aug. 2 b/1 Two new sides featuring the exciting ‘rock 'n' roll’ rhythms of the Joe Houston band on the Combo label, ‘Drunk’ and ‘Lightnin'’, both composed by the fast rising young bandleader himself, have been released this week.

1954 Variety 13 Jan. (Entertainm. Industry Mag. Archive) 67/4 Savage opens up with a hot rock 'n' roll piece which for a second only he holds with his thin pipes.

1954 Billboard 4 Dec. 22/2 Freed is now calling his program the ‘Rock and Roll Show’.

1955 Pittsburgh Courier 26 Feb. 17/1 The two guys are experts at dishing out jazz, spirituals, and the ‘rock and roll’ stuff, something new to ‘sophisticated’ Pittsburgh.

1955 Life 2 May 19 I am a teen-ager and I see no future in the rock 'n roll dance craze.

1958 N.Y. Times 6 May 21/4 (headline) Rock 'n' roll musical shows in public auditoriums were banned.

1970 L. Bangs in Creem Nov. 37/4 A free rock 'n' roll renaissance which would be true to the original form.

1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 17/6 Former Spector and Shadow Morton sessioneer, a rock'n'roll pianoman in his own right.

1987 New Yorker 12 Jan. 5/1 Music for many kinds of people, including unreconstructed folkies,..and rock-and-roll fundamentalists.

2000 Times 17 Nov. ii. 14/4 ‘John versus Paul’ has to be the most over-rated rock'n'roll spat of all time.

C2.

a. Designating an event, concert, etc., at which rock 'n' roll music and dancing take place.

rock 'n' roll ball n.

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1954 Billboard 25 Dec. 18 (heading) Freed to sponsor ‘Rock & Roll’ ball.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Dec. (Weekend section) 6 MTV has its own New Year's Eve Rock 'n' Roll Ball, with the Starship and the Hooters live.

rock 'n' roll dance n.

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1955 Billboard 22 Jan. 13/5 Freed..threw the ‘Rock 'n' Roll’ dance two nights at the St. Nicholas Arena.

1966 A. Young in Spero 1 ii. 21 New things he'd worked out on drums for a Rock & Roll dance.

2004 E. E. S. Hilton Displaced Person 247 We went to a rock-and-roll dance at the Wagon Wheel.

rock 'n' roll party n.

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1955 Billboard 29 Jan. 57 (advt.) Alan Freed... Over 15,000 paid admissions for the first ‘Rock 'n Roll’ party... Greatest advance sale in the history of American dance promotions.

1955 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 17/3 A month ago Mr. Kelsey organized a ‘Rock'n Roll’ party for 2,000 at an armory here.

2006 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Nov. 92/1 Foliot will preside over weddings, overnight ‘snow-tel’ stays, rock-and-roll parties..and various other events.

rock 'n' roll roadshow n.

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1956 Billboard 1 Sept. 17/1 The latest edition of Irving Feld's Rock and Roll road show has been cast.

1977 Sounds 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.

2006 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 10 (advt.) Rock 'n' roll, swing, jump jive & boogie woogie, Phil's Rock 'n' Roll Roadshow, Rainbow Hotel, Torquay, 8pm-11.15pm.

b. Designating a performer of rock 'n' roll music or a person who dances to rock 'n' roll music.

rock 'n' roll artist n.

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1956 Chicago Defender 14 Jan. 15/5 Allan Freed's taking Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor and several other rock and roll artists to the West Coast.

1984 V. J. Konečni in W. R. Crozier & A. J. Chapman Cognitive Processes Perception Art ii. 76 A number of rock 'n' roll artists, perhaps rightly so, have been hailed as genuine poets.

2001 Ebony June 145/1 White rock 'n' roll artists have been immortalized and credited with creating the multibillion-dollar rock music industry.

rock 'n' roll band n.

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1955 Chicago Defender 3 Sept. 7/3 Also on the star-studded bill were..the Rock and Roll band of Maurice.

1972 Guardian 28 June 16/1 It [sc. the Rolling Stones] is the raunchiest, flashiest, most exciting rock 'n' roll band in existence.

2002 Time Out N.Y. 5 Sept. 107/1 The long-running Silos are an indie-minded rock & roll band with a Memphis-soul jones and folk, introverted melodies.

rock 'n' roll dancer n.

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1956 Chicago Tribune 21 Jan. b1 Despite the fact that Clobber Brennan is pretty handy with his fists, he's also considered the best rock and roll dancer in Irish Grove.

1957 E. 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.

2008 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 18 Aug. 11 A 1950s picnic will be held at Belsay Hall,..complete with rock 'n' roll dancers and a National Service drill sergeant.

rock 'n' roll group n.

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1956 Pittsburgh Courier 14 Jan. b31/1 Another reason for consternation among rock and roll groups is that the day of the big band is coming back.

1965 A. Ginsberg Let. 1 June in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business: Sel. Lett. (2001) 236 I spent the last week in Liverpool, where the Beatles come from, listening to new rock & roll groups—it's a jumping city like San Francisco.

2008 Kidderminster Shuttle (Nexis) 6 Dec. Frank Freeman first opened the dance school in 1948 and soon started putting on rock 'n' roll groups on Sunday nights.

rock 'n' roll singer n.

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1955 N.Y. Amsterdan News 22 Oct. 17/1 Rock and Roll singer Laverne Baker said she was in complete disagreement with a Philly disc jockey who protested the theft of spiritual tuns by rhythm and blues singers.

1956 Look 26 June 42 Lillian Briggs is a rock 'n' roll singer who also plays at the trombone.

1995 Mojo Feb. 44/1 He wanted a rock'n'roll singer, and I fitted the bill.

rock 'n' roll star n.

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1955 Life 18 Apr. 168 (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.

1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vi. 261 A title from one of the rock and roll star's songs.

1992 N. Cohn Heart of World xii. 164 This gave him the pampered, slightly babyfat look of a fifties' rock and roll star, a bobbysoxer's dreamboat.

2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 132 She dumped me because I wasn't going to be a rock'n'roll star after all.

c. Designating songs, records, etc., in this style.

rock 'n' roll lyric n.

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1955 Life 2 May 19 I think you need a teenager's view on rock 'n roll lyrics.

1956 Look 26 June 47 A record spins, and the boys and girls react to rock 'n' roll lyrics with laughter, not involvement.

1999 Music & Lett. 80 258 Lennon's ‘There's a place’..is often cited as an unusually sophisticated treatment of introspection for a rock 'n' roll lyric of the time.

rock 'n' roll number n.

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1955 Life 18 Apr. 168/2 Cash Box..challenged anybody to find smut in the top rock 'n roll numbers.

1969 Listener 3 Apr. 470/3 He can get them swinging with a rock-and-roll number.

1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xiii. 203 We used to form small pickup groups to sing the latest rock-and-roll numbers.

rock 'n' roll record n.

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1954 Atlanta Daily World 23 Dec. 2/2 Allan doesn't call them R & B records. He calls them ‘Rock and Roll’ records.

1955 Life 18 Apr. 168 But parents and police were startled by other rock 'n roll records' words which were frequently suggestive and occasionally lewd.

1996 J. Morrish et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 118/1 The first rock'n'roll records arrived just as direct-to-disc recording was being abandoned in favor of tape.

rock 'n' roll song n.

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1955 N.Y. Times 10 Apr. x. 9/5 The band plays tunes like..‘All the Girls Like the Way I Ride,’ by comparison with which the lyrics of current rock-and-roll songs are positively starchy.

1976 Times 28 May 11/7 Peter Blake, in particular, is thoroughly convincing as an American and has the strongest number in the show, a 1950s rock-and-roll song.

1997 B. R. Kirwin Mad, Bad, & Innocent (2002) i. 8 Rock 'n' roll songs heard over the radio.

rock 'n' roll tune n.

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1955 Chicago Defender 19 Feb. 6 There is the original music, hot, mellow, gospel, mambo and rock n roll tunes.

1972 D. Haston In High Places iii. 45 Robin..was whistling a rock-'n-roll tune.

2008 Sudbury (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 10 Apr. c1 The band performs rock 'n' roll tunes from more than four decades.

C3.

rock 'n' roll craze n. the period in the mid to late 1950s when rock 'n' roll music and performers suddenly gained widespread popularity, esp. among teenagers.

ΚΠ

1955 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 19 May 15/4 The popular artists have apparently stopped the ‘rock and roll’ craze that has swept the country.

1977 Times 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.

2002 G. Karmi In Search of Fatima ii. 315 Pop music had exploded onto the scene more so than even in the rock and roll craze of the late 1950s that had seized my brother.

rock 'n' roll music n. (originally) rhythm and blues music with a fast, vigorous rhythm and a strong beat (cf. sense A. 1); (from the mid 1950s) = sense A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock

rock 'n' roll music1945

r'n'r1955

rock 'n' roll1955

rock1956

1945 Billboard 21 Apr. 66/3 It's right rhythmic rock and roll music that provides plenty of inspiration for the Jump in Phil Moore's Caldonia.

1955 Washington Post 20 Mar. h9 Rock and roll music has replaced hillbilly tunes as the current thing.

1956 Newsweek 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.’

2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 May 54 Then I discovered rock 'n' roll music, got a guitar and joined a band.

rock 'n' roll revivalism n. the attempt to revive rock 'n' roll music, esp. performance which imitates it in style or tries to recapture its original spirit.

ΚΠ

1974 Guardian 27 Mar. 12/6 Bill Haley's return to London for yet another bout of rock and roll revivalism.

1987 Washington Post 22 July c7/1 Full of historical and cultural resonance, these eight cuts give new meaning to rock 'n' roll revivalism.

2002 Mirror (Nexis) 2 Nov. 48 Even veterans like Keith Richards and Bob Dylan fell for the band's brand of rock 'n' roll revivalism.

rock 'n' roll revivalist n. a performer whose style imitates, or who attempts to play in the original spirit of, rock 'n' roll music; a promoter of this.

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1972 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporter 21 Jan. a9/4 Promoted by Richard Nadley, the rock and roll revivalist, it was only the seventh time the garden was sold out—and the first time for a revival-type show.

1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 5/1 The Rock 'N' Roll revivalists.

2008 Sunday Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 July 102 The '60s rock-and-roll revivalists from Melbourne were discovered by Branson in the annual V2 garage-band competition.

rock 'n' roll riot n. an outbreak of violent, rowdy, or wild and uncontrolled behaviour at a rock 'n' roll concert, dance, etc.

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1956 N.Y. Amsterdam News 4 Feb. 1/1 (headline) Rock 'n roll riot jails 9.

1958 Punch 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.

1999 W. Barlow Voice Over 182 The Coronation Ball turned into the nation's first rock-and-roll riot when twenty thousand teens, mostly black, packed the Armory.

rock 'n' roll station n. a radio station which plays principally, or exclusively, rock 'n' roll music.

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1958 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Feb. 21 You shudder a little, but know that nowadays you need an FM radio to get anything except rock and roll stations.

1970 L. Reed Rock 'n' Roll in Pass thru Fire (2000) 69 You could just go out and Dance to the rock 'n' roll station.

1994 R. Preston Hot Zone 206 She put on sweatpants and a sweat shirt and went downstairs to the kitchen and flipped on the radio and tuned it to a rock-and-roll station and popped a Diet Coke.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rock n roll
释义	rock 'n' rolln.adj. Brit. /ˌrɒk (ə)n(d) ˈrəʊl/, U.S. /ˈˌrɑk ən ˈroʊl/ Forms: 1900s– rock and roll, 1900s– rock 'n' roll, 1900s– rock 'n roll, 1900s– rock n roll, 1900s– rock & roll. Also with capital initials, esp. in the first and third element. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to rock and roll at rock v.¹ Phrases 1. Etymology: < to rock and roll at rock v.¹ Phrases 1 (although this is first attested slightly later in the relevant sense: see rock v.¹ Phrases 1b), probably with reference to the motion of the body when dancing.It is possible that there may originally also have been some allusion to uses of each verb as euphemisms for sexual intercourse; compare rock v.¹ 9a, although rock v.¹ was apparently also apprehended early on as referring to music and dance (compare rock v.¹ 9b, 10a, 10b). Compare also roll v.² 8, roll n.² 6e, and perhaps also jelly roll n. at jelly n.¹ Compounds 2. With sense A. 2b compare earlier use as the name of a dance performed to swing music, invented by Irene Castle in 1939 and more commonly known as the Castle Rock and Roll during its brief period of popularity:1939 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. 13 (headline) Irene Castle devises new dancing steps. She demonstrates ‘Rock and Roll’ to Dancing Masters' class.1939 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 12 Nov. e2/5 (caption) This is the ‘Rock and Roll’ dance creation. Popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed, who broadcast rhythm and blues music to a multiracial audience from 1951, and later promoted various dances and concerts featuring rhythm and blues performers. A. n. Originally U.S. 1. A vigorous and compelling rhythm with a strong beat, as in jazz, swing, or rhythm and blues music; (also) music featuring such a rhythm; lively dance music. rare.Falling into disuse after the development of sense A. 2. See also Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1938 K. Werner & S. Werner Rock it for Me (song) 5 It's true that once upon a time, The op'ra was the thing, But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme, So won't you satisfy my soul with a rock an' roll. 1950 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 21 Apr. 2 (advt.) Wabash Avenue..the first lady of rock and roll..and the rollicking, roaring street she rocked to fame! It's the zingiest..swingiest..singiest musical hit in years! 1951 E. Davis & A. Hunter Rock, Little Baby (song) 1 Rock little daddy, Rock and roll, Rock me in rhythm, Satisfy my soul, Rock little daddy, Send me with a rock and roll. 2. a. A style of popular music originating in the southern United States, largely as an amalgam of rhythm and blues, country music, and Chicago electric blues (typically played by Southern musicians) and characterized by a heavily accentuated backbeat and simple melodies and structures; (later also more generally) rock music; = rock n.³ 2b.Rock 'n' roll is often (esp. in the early recordings) based around a twelve-bar structure, typically featuring an instrumentation of guitar, double bass, and drums, with the snare drum providing the characteristic backbeat. Later general use referring to rock music usually involves a self-conscious reference to rock 'n' roll as the musical genre from which this evolved.Some attributive uses (see Compounds) show a transition between sense A. 1 and this sense, often with reference to the radio shows and concerts of Alan Freed (see note in etymology, and e.g. quots. 1954² at Compounds 1, 1954 for rock 'n' roll ball n. at Compounds 2a). His 1953 ‘Biggest Rhythm and Blues Show’ tour is often regarded as the first major rock 'n' roll tour, although many of the performers featured would now typically be classified as rhythm and blues vocalists. From this time, the term rock 'n' roll became popular with white audiences, esp. teenagers (cf. rock 'n' roll craze n. at Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock rock 'n' roll music1945 r'n'r1955 rock 'n' roll1955 rock1956 1955 N.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. 1956 Observer 30 Dec. 8/8 What else happened in 1956? Elvis Presley happened. So did Rock 'n' Roll. 1957 Cape Times 17 Jan. 7/1 Rock and roll has affiliations with our own vastraps and tiekiedraais to which Coloured bands used to thrum the beat. 1962 Listener 1 Nov. 703/2 The bulletins last night kept breaking into the rock-'n'-roll. 1968 A. 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. 1970 L. Reed Rock 'n' Roll in Pass thru Fire (2000) 69 She started shakin' to that fine fine music You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll. 1977 Zigzag 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. 1996 R. Niles et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 74/1 Little Richard discovered religion, renounced rock'n'roll, and refused to complete the southern leg of a US tour. 2008 Magnet No. 79. 123 The whole ban-burning package combines blues, metal and rock'n'roll for what could be a soundtrack for a deadly gunfight in Dodge City. b. A style of dance performed to this music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [noun] rag dance1892 rag1899 jazzing1917 shey-sheyc1920 juking1937 boogie1940 rocking1948 rock 'n' rolling1956 rock 'n' roll1958 monkey1963 ska1964 boogaloo1965 rocksteady1967 reggae1968 skank1974 salsa1975 skanking1976 Macarena1995 1958 Times 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)’. 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties xi. 139 The Charleston and Rock 'n Roll; is there so much difference after all? 1960 Master Detective July 83/2 Rock and Roll, that's what I'm good at. I got a terrific collection of platters. 1983 J. Hennessy Torvill & Dean 147 Rock 'n' roll could also include skating movements and music that embraced the jive and swing. 2006 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 9/4 Researchers..studied the effects of energetic salsa, rock'n'roll and Cuban ‘danzon’. B. adj. Having the style or (supposed) characteristics of a rock musician; hedonistic, extravagant; ‘cool’. Also: characteristic of rock music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [adjective] > rock rock 'n' roll1976 1976 M. Bragg Christmas Child 22 ‘We're goin' in for a drink,’ he said, his rock-n-roll stiff black quiff shining under the street light. 1978 Chicago Tribune 10 Dec. vi. 5/2 Elvis was about as rock and roll as I got. 1985 San Diego Union (Electronic ed.) 24 May d13 This isn't going to sound very rock 'n' roll, but when I come home, I enjoy..mowing the lawn. 1989 Philadelphia Inquirer (Electronic ed.) 5 Mar. You can jump off the stage. It can be as rock-and-roll as you want it to be. 1998 Guitar Player Nov. 53/3 It starts off as a very rock-and-roll solo... But then, here come the jazz chords. 2004 Independent 24 June (Review section) 4/2 Meadow voles are the rock'n'roll voles—shockingly promiscuous when mating, and strangers to commitment. 2008 Esquire Mar. 106/1 Tea is so rock'n'roll these days; according to one rumour, Led Zep's rider for the O2 gig asked for nothing more than a decent brew of English Breakfast. Compounds C1. General attributive (originally in sense A. 1, later in sense A. 2, with quots. in 1954–5 showing a transition between the senses: see note at sense A. 2).Some of the more established compounds of this type are entered separately at Compounds 2, Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1938 N.Y. Times 5 June e10/2 (caption) ‘Rock-and-Roll’ men. Band leaders Benny Goodman (left) and Gene Krupa—Their likes are not to be heard abroad. 1945 Billboard 10 Mar. 66/2 It's rock and roll rhythm all the way, with some race blues wordage added by the maestro. 1952 A. O'Day (title on record label) Rock 'n roll blues. 1953 Los Angeles Sentinel 20 Aug. 2 b/1 Two new sides featuring the exciting ‘rock 'n' roll’ rhythms of the Joe Houston band on the Combo label, ‘Drunk’ and ‘Lightnin'’, both composed by the fast rising young bandleader himself, have been released this week. 1954 Variety 13 Jan. (Entertainm. Industry Mag. Archive) 67/4 Savage opens up with a hot rock 'n' roll piece which for a second only he holds with his thin pipes. 1954 Billboard 4 Dec. 22/2 Freed is now calling his program the ‘Rock and Roll Show’. 1955 Pittsburgh Courier 26 Feb. 17/1 The two guys are experts at dishing out jazz, spirituals, and the ‘rock and roll’ stuff, something new to ‘sophisticated’ Pittsburgh. 1955 Life 2 May 19 I am a teen-ager and I see no future in the rock 'n roll dance craze. 1958 N.Y. Times 6 May 21/4 (headline) Rock 'n' roll musical shows in public auditoriums were banned. 1970 L. Bangs in Creem Nov. 37/4 A free rock 'n' roll renaissance which would be true to the original form. 1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 17/6 Former Spector and Shadow Morton sessioneer, a rock'n'roll pianoman in his own right. 1987 New Yorker 12 Jan. 5/1 Music for many kinds of people, including unreconstructed folkies,..and rock-and-roll fundamentalists. 2000 Times 17 Nov. ii. 14/4 ‘John versus Paul’ has to be the most over-rated rock'n'roll spat of all time. C2. a. Designating an event, concert, etc., at which rock 'n' roll music and dancing take place. rock 'n' roll ball n. ΚΠ 1954 Billboard 25 Dec. 18 (heading) Freed to sponsor ‘Rock & Roll’ ball. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Dec. (Weekend section) 6 MTV has its own New Year's Eve Rock 'n' Roll Ball, with the Starship and the Hooters live. rock 'n' roll dance n. ΚΠ 1955 Billboard 22 Jan. 13/5 Freed..threw the ‘Rock 'n' Roll’ dance two nights at the St. Nicholas Arena. 1966 A. Young in Spero 1 ii. 21 New things he'd worked out on drums for a Rock & Roll dance. 2004 E. E. S. Hilton Displaced Person 247 We went to a rock-and-roll dance at the Wagon Wheel. rock 'n' roll party n. ΚΠ 1955 Billboard 29 Jan. 57 (advt.) Alan Freed... Over 15,000 paid admissions for the first ‘Rock 'n Roll’ party... Greatest advance sale in the history of American dance promotions. 1955 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 17/3 A month ago Mr. Kelsey organized a ‘Rock'n Roll’ party for 2,000 at an armory here. 2006 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Nov. 92/1 Foliot will preside over weddings, overnight ‘snow-tel’ stays, rock-and-roll parties..and various other events. rock 'n' roll roadshow n. ΚΠ 1956 Billboard 1 Sept. 17/1 The latest edition of Irving Feld's Rock and Roll road show has been cast. 1977 Sounds 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. 2006 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 10 (advt.) Rock 'n' roll, swing, jump jive & boogie woogie, Phil's Rock 'n' Roll Roadshow, Rainbow Hotel, Torquay, 8pm-11.15pm. b. Designating a performer of rock 'n' roll music or a person who dances to rock 'n' roll music. rock 'n' roll artist n. ΚΠ 1956 Chicago Defender 14 Jan. 15/5 Allan Freed's taking Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor and several other rock and roll artists to the West Coast. 1984 V. J. Konečni in W. R. Crozier & A. J. Chapman Cognitive Processes Perception Art ii. 76 A number of rock 'n' roll artists, perhaps rightly so, have been hailed as genuine poets. 2001 Ebony June 145/1 White rock 'n' roll artists have been immortalized and credited with creating the multibillion-dollar rock music industry. rock 'n' roll band n. ΚΠ 1955 Chicago Defender 3 Sept. 7/3 Also on the star-studded bill were..the Rock and Roll band of Maurice. 1972 Guardian 28 June 16/1 It [sc. the Rolling Stones] is the raunchiest, flashiest, most exciting rock 'n' roll band in existence. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 5 Sept. 107/1 The long-running Silos are an indie-minded rock & roll band with a Memphis-soul jones and folk, introverted melodies. rock 'n' roll dancer n. ΚΠ 1956 Chicago Tribune 21 Jan. b1 Despite the fact that Clobber Brennan is pretty handy with his fists, he's also considered the best rock and roll dancer in Irish Grove. 1957 E. 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. 2008 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 18 Aug. 11 A 1950s picnic will be held at Belsay Hall,..complete with rock 'n' roll dancers and a National Service drill sergeant. rock 'n' roll group n. ΚΠ 1956 Pittsburgh Courier 14 Jan. b31/1 Another reason for consternation among rock and roll groups is that the day of the big band is coming back. 1965 A. Ginsberg Let. 1 June in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business: Sel. Lett. (2001) 236 I spent the last week in Liverpool, where the Beatles come from, listening to new rock & roll groups—it's a jumping city like San Francisco. 2008 Kidderminster Shuttle (Nexis) 6 Dec. Frank Freeman first opened the dance school in 1948 and soon started putting on rock 'n' roll groups on Sunday nights. rock 'n' roll singer n. ΚΠ 1955 N.Y. Amsterdan News 22 Oct. 17/1 Rock and Roll singer Laverne Baker said she was in complete disagreement with a Philly disc jockey who protested the theft of spiritual tuns by rhythm and blues singers. 1956 Look 26 June 42 Lillian Briggs is a rock 'n' roll singer who also plays at the trombone. 1995 Mojo Feb. 44/1 He wanted a rock'n'roll singer, and I fitted the bill. rock 'n' roll star n. ΚΠ 1955 Life 18 Apr. 168 (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. 1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vi. 261 A title from one of the rock and roll star's songs. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World xii. 164 This gave him the pampered, slightly babyfat look of a fifties' rock and roll star, a bobbysoxer's dreamboat. 2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 132 She dumped me because I wasn't going to be a rock'n'roll star after all. c. Designating songs, records, etc., in this style. rock 'n' roll lyric n. ΚΠ 1955 Life 2 May 19 I think you need a teenager's view on rock 'n roll lyrics. 1956 Look 26 June 47 A record spins, and the boys and girls react to rock 'n' roll lyrics with laughter, not involvement. 1999 Music & Lett. 80 258 Lennon's ‘There's a place’..is often cited as an unusually sophisticated treatment of introspection for a rock 'n' roll lyric of the time. rock 'n' roll number n. ΚΠ 1955 Life 18 Apr. 168/2 Cash Box..challenged anybody to find smut in the top rock 'n roll numbers. 1969 Listener 3 Apr. 470/3 He can get them swinging with a rock-and-roll number. 1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xiii. 203 We used to form small pickup groups to sing the latest rock-and-roll numbers. rock 'n' roll record n. ΚΠ 1954 Atlanta Daily World 23 Dec. 2/2 Allan doesn't call them R & B records. He calls them ‘Rock and Roll’ records. 1955 Life 18 Apr. 168 But parents and police were startled by other rock 'n roll records' words which were frequently suggestive and occasionally lewd. 1996 J. Morrish et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 118/1 The first rock'n'roll records arrived just as direct-to-disc recording was being abandoned in favor of tape. rock 'n' roll song n. ΚΠ 1955 N.Y. Times 10 Apr. x. 9/5 The band plays tunes like..‘All the Girls Like the Way I Ride,’ by comparison with which the lyrics of current rock-and-roll songs are positively starchy. 1976 Times 28 May 11/7 Peter Blake, in particular, is thoroughly convincing as an American and has the strongest number in the show, a 1950s rock-and-roll song. 1997 B. R. Kirwin Mad, Bad, & Innocent (2002) i. 8 Rock 'n' roll songs heard over the radio. rock 'n' roll tune n. ΚΠ 1955 Chicago Defender 19 Feb. 6 There is the original music, hot, mellow, gospel, mambo and rock n roll tunes. 1972 D. Haston In High Places iii. 45 Robin..was whistling a rock-'n-roll tune. 2008 Sudbury (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 10 Apr. c1 The band performs rock 'n' roll tunes from more than four decades. C3. rock 'n' roll craze n. the period in the mid to late 1950s when rock 'n' roll music and performers suddenly gained widespread popularity, esp. among teenagers. ΚΠ 1955 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 19 May 15/4 The popular artists have apparently stopped the ‘rock and roll’ craze that has swept the country. 1977 Times 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. 2002 G. Karmi In Search of Fatima ii. 315 Pop music had exploded onto the scene more so than even in the rock and roll craze of the late 1950s that had seized my brother. rock 'n' roll music n. (originally) rhythm and blues music with a fast, vigorous rhythm and a strong beat (cf. sense A. 1); (from the mid 1950s) = sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock rock 'n' roll music1945 r'n'r1955 rock 'n' roll1955 rock1956 1945 Billboard 21 Apr. 66/3 It's right rhythmic rock and roll music that provides plenty of inspiration for the Jump in Phil Moore's Caldonia. 1955 Washington Post 20 Mar. h9 Rock and roll music has replaced hillbilly tunes as the current thing. 1956 Newsweek 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.’ 2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 May 54 Then I discovered rock 'n' roll music, got a guitar and joined a band. rock 'n' roll revivalism n. the attempt to revive rock 'n' roll music, esp. performance which imitates it in style or tries to recapture its original spirit. ΚΠ 1974 Guardian 27 Mar. 12/6 Bill Haley's return to London for yet another bout of rock and roll revivalism. 1987 Washington Post 22 July c7/1 Full of historical and cultural resonance, these eight cuts give new meaning to rock 'n' roll revivalism. 2002 Mirror (Nexis) 2 Nov. 48 Even veterans like Keith Richards and Bob Dylan fell for the band's brand of rock 'n' roll revivalism. rock 'n' roll revivalist n. a performer whose style imitates, or who attempts to play in the original spirit of, rock 'n' roll music; a promoter of this. ΚΠ 1972 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporter 21 Jan. a9/4 Promoted by Richard Nadley, the rock and roll revivalist, it was only the seventh time the garden was sold out—and the first time for a revival-type show. 1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 5/1 The Rock 'N' Roll revivalists. 2008 Sunday Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 July 102 The '60s rock-and-roll revivalists from Melbourne were discovered by Branson in the annual V2 garage-band competition. rock 'n' roll riot n. an outbreak of violent, rowdy, or wild and uncontrolled behaviour at a rock 'n' roll concert, dance, etc. ΚΠ 1956 N.Y. Amsterdam News 4 Feb. 1/1 (headline) Rock 'n roll riot jails 9. 1958 Punch 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. 1999 W. Barlow Voice Over 182 The Coronation Ball turned into the nation's first rock-and-roll riot when twenty thousand teens, mostly black, packed the Armory. rock 'n' roll station n. a radio station which plays principally, or exclusively, rock 'n' roll music. ΚΠ 1958 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Feb. 21 You shudder a little, but know that nowadays you need an FM radio to get anything except rock and roll stations. 1970 L. Reed Rock 'n' Roll in Pass thru Fire (2000) 69 You could just go out and Dance to the rock 'n' roll station. 1994 R. Preston Hot Zone 206 She put on sweatpants and a sweat shirt and went downstairs to the kitchen and flipped on the radio and tuned it to a rock-and-roll station and popped a Diet Coke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1938
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