Cite your sources!!! And Where did White Gospel Music come from? Black Slave Songs!   Origin Negroe Spirituals Rock from BLues and R and B  Name one celtic song that influenced white rock musicians ealy on in Life. Elvis, NO, Buddy Holly? NO The Big Bopper? NO. Now Rock was also influenced by country I know that, but you can't say that Blacks did not play a HUGE role in Rocks Foundations.  Blacks did not play a HUGE roll in Rock's foundation. Wikipedia is a VERY unreliable source, who do you think puts that crap on their site?? They have all kinds of false information on that site. Since anyone can edit it to their heart's content. By gospel music I mean church songs, songs that WHITE Christians sing in church, and were doing in Europe before they even came to America.      The Scots-Irish settlers who came to America, and in particular the Appalachian region brought with them their Celtic music of course. Over time this evolved into Folk music, Country-Western, and Bluegrass. Which in turn, evolved into Rock N' Roll. Go listen to some pre Rock N' Roll era country music, Folk music, or go listen to some Celtic music, and then listen to some Elvis Presley or something and you will hear the similarities. Much more similarities there than comparing Elvis to some mamma jamma slave ni##er noise. Rock from Blues and R and B huh? Blues had an effect on Rock but nothing like the White southern musical genres did. And where do you suppose blues came from? The nigs just pulled it outta their rear end? They were playin' the blues since they were still in the jungles of Africa living in mud huts? No. The slaves heard the White man playing his guitars and fiddles, playing folk music, country music, and Celtic styled music, and from that they got the idea to start playin' the gee-tar themselves and singin' da blues. You know why the early blues music was reeeallly slooow and boring sounding? It's because the nigros were not very talented musicians , not very good gee-tar players, they had to pluck da strings reeeal sloowww, and sing about da bluuuuues.  