Did Blacks Or whites invent rock and roll??

My brother and i are having an argument on which race created rock and roll!My brother claims black people did,But i think that white people did?!?!Which one is it???HELP!!!
Did Blacks Or whites invent rock and roll??
It's not as straight forward as you may think. There is a large R%26amp;B influence to rock and roll. I think the answer is that they both did.
Did Blacks Or whites invent rock and roll??
Look up Big Mama Thornton..."You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" years before Elvis...Black folk invented R%26amp;B White folks repackaged it as R%26amp;R and made a fortune...and didn't share.


EDIT: It was called "Race" music on colored radio stations and sold as "Race Records." I use "colored" advisable as at that time there were only colored, n*gro and that other ugly word..Black and African American came much later.
Reply:I think its mostly influence by blacks. I'm pretty sure I've heard they called rock music black music back then.
Reply:Rock and Roll was not invented buy simply evolved from many different genres. R%26amp;B played a major roll , if you will. Blues music , Europeon music that early settlers brought over also had an influence also jazz.
Reply:I think some of the biggest early influences to rock music were blues (mainly black musician) and country (mainly white musicians).


Look at a band like Led Zeppelin and you can tell it's got blues in in, listen to a band like social distortion and alot of the guitar sounds country in origin.


Both are rock bands.


If you go back to something old like Elvis Presley, I personally think he sounded more country, but alot of his songs have a definite blues feel to them as well.


Also keep in mind that rock has always been rebelious music for it's era, and black people historically have not been accepted into American society very readily, so historicallically in America they are a rebelious people.


One more thing to think about is it has only been exetremely recently that blacks haven't been common to rock, for decades musicians of any genre could be any race, just nowadays people have decided that certain color people have to make certain kinds of music. Makes you wonder who's really more racist.


And last of all, Hendrix was black, but his band was white.





I think we stopped having so many black rockers in the eighties. I don't know why.
Reply:Rock and Roll wasn't invented - it developed out of other music forms. Rhythm %26amp; Blues, gospel, Jazz, Ragtime, country western, and others all contributed. Generally, however, the influence of Black musicians was stronger than white musicians upon Rock %26amp; Roll.