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Rock and roll in the United States has never been only a set of formal conventions or a marker of a specific era; it is a living, breathing framework that absorbs and retransmits the voices of every community that claims it, turning the genre’s core impulse of rebellion and celebration into something that can hold the specific joys, griefs, and longings of people who have often been pushed to the margins of mainstream cultural life, from the Black creators who first forged the form in the mid-20th century to the diasporic communities that have carried its energy into every corner of the country, reworking it to fit their own experiences of home, displacement, and connection.
