Hello, rock 'n roll had its roots in black music. The whites just bleached it.
https://www.britannica.com/art/rock-and-roll-early-style-of-rock-music
rock and roll, style of popular
music that originated in the
United States in the mid-1950s and that evolved by the mid-1960s into the more
encompassing international style known as
rock music, though the latter also continued to be known as rock and roll.
Rock and roll has been described as a merger of
country music and
rhythm and blues, but, if it were that simple, it would have existed long before it burst into the national
consciousness. The seeds of the music had been in place for decades, but they flowered in the mid-1950s when nourished by a volatile mix of Black
culture and white spending power. Black vocal groups such as
the Dominoes and
the Spaniels began combining gospel-style harmonies and call-and-response
singing with earthy subject matter and more aggressive rhythm-and-blues rhythms. Heralding this new sound were disc jockeys such as
Alan Freed of
Cleveland, Ohio,
Dewey Phillips of
Memphis, Tennessee, and
William (“Hoss”) Allen of WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee—who created rock-and-roll radio by playing hard-driving rhythm-and-blues and raunchy blues records that introduced white suburban teenagers to a culture that sounded more exotic, thrilling, and illicit than anything they had ever known. In 1954 that sound coalesced around an image: that of a handsome white singer,
Elvis Presley, who sounded like a Black man.