WHATS ROCK n ROLL well is a genre of popular music that originated in late 1940s and 1950s. some say that the term rock n roll came from a song of Ella fitzgerald about 3 decades ago.Ella sang the lyric in 1937 the song called rock it for me... i have to say growing up listening to The beatles, Bob dylan and The rolling stones has been so great because you learn from this and for example Bob dylan wrote his songs about the happening in that time like Vietnam war and bunch of stuff..