
Innovative and unlike
anything else that had ever happened before in music, Rock emerged in the
early 1950s as a music that for the first time catered almost exclusively to
the youth of the day. It helped erase the racial divide between black and white
America, and also caught on rapidly in Britain, and other parts of Europe, notably
Germany. British rock groups became a major influence on rock music in the U.S.
The major raw creative force of...