Why 1955? : explaining the advent of rock music

Met lit. opg. In the early 1950s, the music industry was blind to the large and growing unsatiated demand for greater variety in music. The developing network of independent record distributors and the arrival of cheap transistor radios meant that a much larger and far wider range of music was exposed to the audience. This development, the advent of rock music, took place between late 1954 and early 1957.