  This is white man posing as a black singing white music. Although I think black face was an attempt to bring back the nostalgia of the antebellum South. I think this really is white music.       Chuck Berry.    White music:     Well maybe not music for all whites. :)  My point being, rock and roll was an offshoot of music sung in Southern black churches, some jazz, and maybe can going back to ragtime. Doesn't Shout sound like something out of a raucous church assembly. I think it was even in the movie Blues Brothers. However, today's music is the product of marketing more than anything else, and bears little resemblance to the rock of old.  Who's side are you on anyways? There's much more to White music than Classsical(even though it is the best). If Shout by the Isley Brothers sounds Black it should since they are Black, and they are more of an R&B band than a Rock band, although they played everything from soul, rock, r&b to funk. If you still think Rock is undeniably a completely Black originated form of music even after reading through this thread then I am sorry but you obviously are in denial and do not know much about the evolution of American music. Chuck Berry and the Isley Brothers were not the first Rock N' Roll performers either, it's not like either of them originated Rock music Shout wasn't released until 1959, by the way I am quite a fan of the Isleys. I think you just don't want Rock to be attributed to Whites more than Blacks because you view it as being too immature and not civilized enough as you've already noted, so you'd like to see it chalked up for the Blacks. Ever met any genuine hillbillies in your life? They are generally some very wild, rowdy, often rather...loose moraled people:cool: they're usually hopped up on Moonshine:D George Jones knows a lil' somethin' about that...... http://search.playlist.com/tracks/ge...%2520lightning  Not all Whites are aristocratic, proper, classically trained gentleman.    PS- Chuck Berry used to play alot of country and hillbilly music. Before he ever got into Rock N' Roll.     The most popular music in the area among whites was hillbilly. The band played mostly blues and ballads, but Berrys joking hillbilly songs were the real pleasers and it wasn't long before a white crowd got word of a black hillbilly and began coming to his shows    Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo? After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.  Chuck Berry, from Chuck Berry: The Autobiography