The electric rebellion of the first 'rock'n'roll'

Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop Alop-Bam-Boom . Seen this way, it is almost illegible. It sounds like a strange dialect from some remote part of the planet, or like the encrypted message of an alien fallen from the sky, and something of that thought those who first heard it in the voice of Little Richard, back in 1955, when the world it still looked black and white. But most could not resist. Without losing its genuine and amazing strength, the song cry Tutti Frutti is today the most famous in the history of popular music, the first hallmark of rock'n'roll , the words that opened wide and without prior notice the doors of youth culture.

The prestigious musicologist Charlie Gillet wrote in his fundamental book History of rock. The sound of the city that " rock'n'roll was perhaps the first form of popular culture that unreservedly celebrated the most criticized features of urban life." Traits such as the celebration of youth, sexual liberation, drug use, the coexistence of blacks and whites ... As an exciting and liberating sound, anchored in electric guitar, rock and roll, through pioneers such as Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry or Ike Turner, was a trigger for a new artistic rebellion. An improvised rebellion and without strategy in between but that led to a mental and moral transformation in the new generations from the second half of the 20th century.

Rock'n'roll demanded from its beginnings in the first years of the fifties an active audience to participate in this dynamic attitude of life, and its songs were the best reflection of demand. Devilish rhythms, persuasive sounds, irreverent lyrics, new aesthetics ...

This playlist of songs unceremoniously celebrates first-class rock'n'roll , the original, the philosopher's stone upon which the Bob Dylan, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Clash, or Nirvana would later exist. It is important to note that there are several black musicians on this list. Because one of the most fascinating results of rock'n'roll's popularity was that it increased the presence and, at the same time, the number of black singers. Without them, rock'n'roll would never have been possible. As Muddy Waters, the father of Chicago electric blues, put it, "Blues had a son and called it rock'n'roll." By the way, you have to distinguish between rock'n'roll and rock and roll . The first term is the original, used at the beginning of this groundbreaking sound and that made the streets dance. The second is music so named after rock'n'roll became extinct for many in the late 1950s and led to many other glorious things.