Rock & Roll

Rock & roll is a pop-oriented, guitar-based style of rhythm & blues ?, emerging in the late 1940s ? and finding commercial success and crossover with white audience in the 1950s ?, spanning black artists like Chuck Berry ? and Little Richard ? to white megastar Elvis Presley ?. Rock & roll also drew influence from the honky tonk ? form of country ?, most prominent in the rockabilly ? subgenre. Finding massive international popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s, the influence of rock & roll led to offshoots like surf rock, instrumental rock ?, and garage rock.