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The Birth and Evolution of Modern Popular Music 1951 to 1999

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**  a work in progress… Rock and Roll Origin: 1951 A  great advance in American civil liberties, as well as a revolution in music, took place as a result of the introduction of rock and roll in 1951. Alan Freed, a disc jockey in Cleveland, used the term to undermine the segregation of popular music into black and white. [...]

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