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Things Are Getting Complicated
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Rock and roll as a formalized genre grew from the cross-pollination of regional musical traditions that spread across every corner of the United States, weaving together threads of practice that turned local, community-rooted sounds into a global cultural force that reshaped art, identity, and social life across every continent. The category of rock and roll carries layers of historical and cultural weight that shape every recording released under its umbrella, and when a rock and roll sound is rooted in the United States, it sits within a lineage that extends from the earliest days of the genre’s mainstream breakthrough to the countless iterations that have reimagined its boundaries decade after decade, never straying too far from the raw, unapologetic core that made the form revolutionary in its first iteration.
