From Open Culture: “For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s,” writes Leah Branstetter, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at ...

Dancing – and dancing shows – became a teenage craze in the 1950s, spurred by figures like Cleveland DJ, Alan Freed. His hit dance show featured R&B and African American music – which he later dubbed ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of course, there weren’t only five songs that fit that description. One of the ...

The News Sentinel each month tells stories from the past by researching the Knox County Public Library’s digital archives. Archiving 1922-1990 News Sentinel issues was funded through a recent "Papers ...

Robert Krich was just a guy with an idea. He was sitting around his living room thinking about his life and things he used to do, Krich said. His predominant memory of growing up in Elgin was going to ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

Sun City Oro Valley's "That Old Time Rock and Roll Dance Party" club brings new meaning to the term "rock around the clock." The 270-member group's movers and shakers don't let middle age or ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The legacy of pioneering deejay Alan Freed is still seen and heard in the city where he coined “Rock and Roll” while working in WJW radio in 1951. “Chapter one page one is ...

Week 8 of “Dancing with the Stars” tips its hat to the genre of rock ’n’ roll on its Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night. See ...

Dancing – and dancing shows – became a teenage craze in the 1950s, spurred by figures like Cleveland DJ, Alan Freed. His hit dance show featured R&B and African American music – which he later dubbed ...