Music of 50's

In the early 50's, the radio DJ Alan Freed popularized the term rock on the airwaves. It is time that begins to emerge a new musical style, as groundbreaking and innovative and provocative, the product of the fusion of black music (blues) and white (country). Bill Haley & The Comets (with his classic Rock around the clock), the firebrand Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Chuck extravagant Berry, with names like Buddy Holly, Eddy Cochran and Gene Vincent are among the protagonists in these early years . But the mother would rock in every way with a young man from Tupelo, Mississippi, who went by the name of Elvis Aaron Presley, and that would ensure that the phenomenon had the reach and impact worldwide. The miracle occurred on July 5, 1954 in the studio of Sun Records, a crummy little room located at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis (Tennessee). An arrogant kid that took 19 years to be a humble local truck driver and, after recording a song three minutes long, took to the streets become a king. Elvis Aron Presley was called and hung over the heated asphalt southern convinced that his destiny was the glory was blown youth culture, created the social phenomenon of the twentieth century and changed the course of time. Elvis Presley had invented the rock and roll. Or so it seemed. Further analysis may limit its importance into a simple white ambassador of the sounds created by blacks. The rock music is a bastard, conceived on a cotton plantation, built in an illegal distillery and calving in a brothel. Elvis loved the blues, the devil's music, and do not hesitate to pick up the essence of these sounds dark (work songs, blues, gospel ...), lowering his blackness with some country and selling them to the world wrapped in a couple of shots hip. Young people needed something. Own culture that would eliminate from their repertoire of Frank Sinatra's maudlin melodies, good manners of Doris Day and bellicose arrogance of Eisenhower and Nixon. A revolution that stretch to a dormant company, which put an end to racial segregation and revolt against the rules. When Elvis recorded the legendary song entitled That's All Right, in the United States would throw the first atomic submarine and dismissing Senator McCarthy witch-hunts. The rest of the planet began to hum the songs from the eight countries that participated in the first Eurovision Song Contest. American writer Susan Sontag was 21, "Elvis and Chuck Berry were to leave my husband and I forget the academic world," said Elvis was the white king and Jerry Lee Lewis the most direct rival to take his throne. Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran were worthy squires. Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley had as much or more class than them, but the color of their skin prevented them from fighting on equal terms. A racial problem that kept anonymous, and deprived of the rights to their songs, some of the most important creators in the history of blues and black rock, sources in the later white rockers would drink: Elmore James, Howlin 'Wolf, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Lonnie Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy ...