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In den 1950er Jahren promotete er den Rock ’n’ Roll. Ihm wird auch die Einführung des Begriffs „Rock and Roll“ für diese Musikrichtung zugeschrieben. Weil er allgemein den Rock ’n’ Roll und speziell schwarze wie weiße Künstler förderte, wurde er stark angefeindet.
Alan Freed has secured a place in American music history as the first important rock 'n' roll disc jockey. His ability to tap into and promote the emerging black musical styles of the 1950s to a white mainstream audience is seen as a vital step in rock's increasing dominance over American culture.
27. März 2018 · Despite the troubled years, he faced at the end of his life, Alan Freed is still considered a key creator of rock and roll. He was one of the first people inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in 1986. He also was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1988, and in 1991, he earned a star on the Hollywood ...
One of the most important popularizes of rock and roll during the '50s, Alan Freed was the first disc jockey and concert producer of rock and roll. Often credited with coining the term rock and roll in 1951, ostensibly to avoid the stigma attached to R&B and so called race music, Freed opened the door to white acceptance of black music ...
Alan Freed did not coin the phrase rock and roll; however, by way of his radio show, he popularized it and redefined it. Once slang for sex, it came to mean a new form of music. This music had been around for several years, but Freed’s primary accomplishment was the delivery of it to new—primarily.
During a decade when radio was losing its biggest stars to television, Alan Freed revived the medium with the music he labeled “rock and roll.” Born on November 21, 1921, Freed began his broadcasting career in 1942.
In the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock, Freed tells the audience that “rock and roll is a river of music which has absorbed many streams: rhythm and blues, jazz, ragtime, cowboy songs, country songs, folk songs. All have contributed greatly to the big beat.”
