The Rhythm and the Blues

Rock and roll is a high-energy, dance-oriented popular music style that emerged in the United States in the early-to-mid 1950s. It fuses the 12‑bar blues and boogie‑woogie with the backbeat and instrumentation of rhythm & blues, the twang and storytelling of country, and the fervor of gospel.

Soul is a genre of popular music that blends the spiritual fervor and vocal techniques of African‑American gospel with the grooves and song forms of rhythm & blues and the harmonic palette of jazz and blues.