Today I Found Out
Why is "Rock and Roll" Called That? (2016x265)
Air date: Dec 10, 2016
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→How "D“” has been used since the Middle Ages to refer to, among other things, having sex: “Let’s go for a roll in the hay”; “Rolling under the sheets”; etc. The word “rock”, again among other things, has been used since at least the 17th century as a term meaning “shake or disturb”. A couple hundred years later, this had also spread to black gospel singers using “rock” to refer to being shaken in a spiritual sense, as in spiritual rapture (rocked).
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Sources:
http://www.freakingnews.com/Classic-Rock-Pictures-11248.asp
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rock_and_roll
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rock
http://flavorwire.com/109772/the-etymology-of-10-musical-genre-names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=roll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame
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