How about how jazz music influenced and was the basis for rock and roll?  What about all of the whites who came down to the speak easies to rebel away from their parents.   BLues and Jazz turned to Rythym and Blues, which turned into rock. You guys seriously need to take some classes on the history of Rock and Roll, It'l increase your knowledge on rock music exponentially. Rock was a direct descendant of WHITE folk music, Country-Western, and other WHITE, southern, Celtic influenced musical genres. The early rock n' roll did have a bit of a bluesy element to it, but White southern music had much more influence on the development of WHITE rock music than did the black blues. All the early blues was in the first place was a bunch of old black guys with guitars trying to immitate WHITE country, folk, and bluegrass music. White music had more of an influence on the blues than the blues had on any WHITE musical genre like Rock.     ^I just copied and pasted that from a different thread where some dumbski was saying Rock is a Black music form. IT'S NOT. WHITE folk music, country music, bluegrass, and celtic music and even White gospel turned into Rock N' Roll. It also gave the Blacks the idea to start playin' da blues, which led to R&B, White music influenced black blues and r n' b music more than any black music influenced Rock. Same thing goes with Jazz, whenever a black guy plays a piano or a horn it's called jazz. White guys(and Jews) were playing some pretty jazzy sounding music on pianos and horns long before blacks coined the term jazz, if they even did coin the term at all. There would have been no jazz if it had not been for these New Orleans blacks being exposed to White classical music and so on.....ugh blacks always want to take credit for rock. They think they single handedly spawned every single American musical genre, not so I say, not so.  Blacks like to think nearly every American spawned musical genre has roots in Black/African music, no, at the base root of nearly every American spawned musical genre is Celtic music, and in the case of Jazz, Classical music. Celtic music had more influence over the course of American music than African music ever did. But whatever you think is true.