the blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll
"When you talk to the average teenager of today, and you ask them what it is about rock & roll music that they like, the first thing they'll say is 'The Beat, The Beat, The Beat'" (quoting the Rev from the late 50s/early 60s) (And he was right about that one - long live rock & roll!)
Late 50s early 60s
"Rock and roll"
Pop and Rock & Roll
Rock n roll & Jazz played the music role in the 1950s.
The phrase used by Cleveland DJ Alan Freed was Rock 'n' Roll
No, there were a lot of styles of music in the 1950s, but not rock. The fifties was the birth of Rock 'n Roll; early Elvis, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Ritchie Valens, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis. There were many others and many other popular genres but Rock music is something else entirely and didn't come along until much later. See the link below for more of the popular music of the 1950s.
Early (early-mid 50s): Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith Late (late 50s - 1960): AC|DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns n Roses etc It can vary
The 50's were the birth of rock and roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley etc were the sounds
A common misconception is that rock started in the late 50s and early 60s with Elvis Prestley and the Beatles. In fact, Rock is an offshoot of Blues and Jazz of the 40s and 50s when singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and musicians such as B.B. King emerged. They served to influence early rock legends including Jim Morisson of the Doors, Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, as well as Jimi Hendrix.
The correct punctuation is '50s music, with the apostrophe before the number to indicate the omission of the letters 19. This follows the standard convention for abbreviating decades.
Late 40s early 50s