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The innovative rock ‘n’ roll

The 1950’s was an era well known for its creativity. Inventions and innovation brought dreary post war Britain into a Technicolor saturated world of the future.

Throughout the ten year span Britain saw instant coffee, the innovation of the teabag – now available on a string for dunking, microchips, barcodes and of course Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Music has always been innovative but it is hard to believe that there was once upon a time when there was no rock music. Rock ‘n’ Roll revolutionized musical tastes, especially amongst the young. This type of new music_was not invented_ but born from a series of innovative and technological developments that created a new market for music.

Little Richard, who was one of the great innovators in 1950’s rock music, once said that “Rhythm and Blues had a baby and somebody named it Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

From the mid 1960’s Rock ‘n’ Roll yielded to ‘rock’ and then later dance genres followed; funk, disco, house and the innovative hip hop.

Innovation is more than just a science; we have been applying innovation to culture, technologies and of course business for decades. Les Baxter, American musician and composer once said: “Any good music must be an innovation.”

Innovation can be applied everywhere and in my series of blogs to follow I will demonstrate how it can be applied to lifestyles and technologies.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Elizabeth Shaw .