Rock and roll has often been equated with rebellion. The genre, though, is just a form of popular music and many of the important players in the game of promoting it were, like the saying goes, only in it for the money. As a rule, music like that will be supportive of the social order rather than inciting resistance against it. So, how did rock and roll acquire its rebellious image? Investigating this question from a sociological perspective, Leo D'Anjou here retells the story of the early beginnings of rock music.

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Soundscapes online journal on media culture / [Opleiding Onderwijskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen]
Department of Sociology

d' Anjou, L. (2003). The riddles of rock and roll. Soundscapes online journal on media culture / [Opleiding Onderwijskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen]. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/886