and roll became marketed for teenagers, as in Dion and the Belmonts' "A Teenager in Love" (1959). Dance styles From its early 1950s beginnings through the early 1960s, rock and roll spawned new dance crazes including the twist. Teenagers found the syncopated backbeat rhythm especially suited to reviving Big Band-era jitterbug dancing. Sock hops, school and church gym dances, and home basement dance parties became the rage, and American teens watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand to keep up on the latest dance and fashion styles. From the mid-1960s on, as "rock and roll" was rebranded as "rock," later dance genres followed, leading to funk, disco, house, techno, and hip hop. References Sources Rock and Roll: A Social History, by Paul Friedlander (1996), Westview Press () "The Rock Window: A Way of Understanding Rock Music" by Paul Friedlander, in Tracking: Popular Music Studies , Volume I, number 1, Spring, 1988 The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll by Holly George-Warren, Patricia Romanowski, Jon Pareles (2001), Fireside Press () The Sound of the City: the Rise of Rock and Roll, by Charlie Gillett (1970), E.P. Dutton The Fifties by David Halberstam (1996), Random House () The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll : The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music by editors James Henke, Holly George-Warren, Anthony Decurtis, Jim Miller (1992), Random House () External links The Camp Meeting Jubilee 1910 recording The Smithsonian's history of the electric guitar History of Rock Youngtown Rock and Roll Museum – Omemee, Ontario Eddie Cochran's Guitars African-American culture African-American music American styles of music American rock music genres Culture of the Southern United States 1950s fads and trends Popular music Radio formats Rock music Youth culture in the United States Youth culture in the United Kingdom 1950s neologisms Italian-American culture