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For the better. Until then Rock was confined to the cage the record companies had built for it. It did not come into it's own as an art form until some groups gained enough clout to tell the record company to get off their back and let them make something other than 3 1/2 minutes of socially acceptable AM radio pap.Rock and Roll was a primarily white genre of music from the late 50's that was a mixture of Black R&B, blues, and country music. There were black R&R musicians like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc, but the primary target audience was young white teens. One of the main purposes of R&R was to make Black music something marketable to a primarily young white audience.
What killed R&R was hallucinogenic drugs. Prior to the mid-60's, most R&R musicians imbibed in mostly alcohol, pot, and sometimes methamphetamines or heroin. When musicians started experimenting with hallucinogenics like LSD, peyote, and psilocybin in the early to mid 1960's, Rock an Roll started changing.