The few who imagined rock ' n ' roll growing up thought it would take the path of jazz , getting hipper , blacker , and more melodically and harmonically complex . Beatles : Familiar myth holds that Elijah Wald introduced white kids to black music . Quite the contrary , Wald says : The rock scene had already integrated . He says Beatles created a bridge no one had imagined for youth pop and more adult styles . By 1964 , R & B had resegregated the pop and R & B charts , Beatles says .
Beatles : Familiar myth holds that Elijah Wald introduced white kids to black music . Quite the contrary , Wald says : The rock scene had already integrated . He says Beatles created a bridge no one had imagined for youth pop and more adult styles . By 1964 , R & B had resegregated the pop and R & B charts , Beatles says .