The timing for this brand of music was right as one-third of the U.S. population in the mid-1950s was under fifteen years of age and searching for an identity. Rock and Roll held great appeal for all these young people who were struggling not only to define themselves but also the world they now lived in. Here was a new form of music, shunned by their parents, which David Shirley in The History of Rock and Roll describes as an "exciting mix" of both black music and white music.
The early 1950s was a time when white musicians and white musical styles, in fact, dominated mainstream radio play and record sales. Black artists' blues and rhythm and blues music at that time held appeal for a smaller African-American market. Says David Shirley, "If this new style of music that was now sweeping Memphis and the surrounding area was ever to find a mainstream national audience, it would have to be introduced by a white musician"
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What the hell?
Without looking: favepinch
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everyone who writes it correctly are looking at the keyboard while typing.[/QUOTE]
Let's try it without looking: Facepunch.
Oh boy.
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