When blues music was transforming into rock ‘n’ roll music in the 1950s, there were a lot of Black artists leading the way. But in the United States at the time, mainstream music consumers weren’t ...

In the 1960s, music was a cultural export. It actually all started the decade before. Blues music from the United States made it across the Atlantic Ocean and British kids started to mimic the songs.

During the 1960s, American music was taken over by artists from the U.K. This era became known as the British Invasion, with U.K. pop and rock artists dominating the American charts. Many of these ...