The rock 'n' roll era started in the '50s and has spawned all sorts of offshoots of "rock" in the seven decades of music since, including hard rock and metal. But how long was it into the rock 'n' ...

Dan Kruse, who has given two popular lecture series at Academy Village on the history of rock 'n' roll music, will return Wednesday with a documentary about how a couple of high school kids started a ...

In the spring of 1954, when the nation’s top record was Perry Como’s “Wanted” and the top album was the soundtrack from the movie The Glenn Miller Story, a new musical style was germinating. Bill ...

Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the late 1950s, radio, TV and the record labels discovered teenagers had money to spend and they spent a lot of it on rock 'n' roll records. Singers barely out of their teens ...