Rock and Roll is a style of music that nearly everyone is familiar with, but nobody knows how it started. I myself am a guitarist whom has spent over seven years studying this particular style of music, but has never really thought about its origin until now. The more I tried to relate rock and roll to other styles of music its origins became even less obvious. That is why I chose this topic on which to base my graduation project. Through this project, I plan to find out such information as when rock and roll was created, who created it, where it originated, and what other styles of music it evolved from. I also plan to find out what other factors may have aided in its birth, and how rock and roll is different today in contrast to the earlier days.

In my attempt to trace the...