Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, a history

[wschac1]

I really wish those people who thought that was bad could listen to today's music and see today's dancing. Now that is much more suggestive. I bet the ones that are still alive if any are pissed. That gets me that they thought the word rock was sex.

[TheDJGrandPa]

@wschac1 Rock and Roll was black slang for sex back in the 20's-40's, but it also meant the swinging (or whatever it's called) on the ships that sent slaves to the US. But they didn't really have that in mind when they made the new music.

[EbonyBunny1]

@TheDJGrandPa U are partly correct. The term Rocking and rolling was an old nautical term from the early 1800's, meaning the rough seas & how the ship rocked & rolled, but it had nothing to to do with slave ships. In the early 1900's the term was used in black communities in songs and literature as a euphemism for sex. By the 1930's the term was used in white communities to describe fast dancing, kinda like a jitterbug. But in '51 Alan Freed was the 1st to use the term to describe music.

[TheDJGrandPa]

@EbonyBunny1 Hmm... I've never heard of that last one... well, that puts a whole lotta sense into it..