1930s
and 1940s
Styles influencing the later development of pop include the
Blues, also originating in African-American communities (for
example: electric guitar Blues in Chicago and Texas), and Country
coming also from "hillbilly music" of poor folk, white
and black (Sun Records in Tennessee), which blended to become
Rockabilly. The most important ingredient in early Rock n' Roll
was, however, the type of Jump blues / R&B led by Louis
Jordan who occasionally broke through into the pop charts. The
music later on was mixed with gospel handclaps, boogie woogie
and larger emphasis on backbeat, by artists such as The Treniers,
which created Rock 'n' Roll. The rise of the crying and emotional
singers in the late 1940s such as Mario Lanza began the pop
music vocal style.
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