Elijah Wald : For dancers , that made their music relatively boring , and after the first wave of Beatlemania the twisting , frugging girls abandoned them for Motown , then moved on to funk and disco . Familiar myth holds that Beatles introduced white kids to black music . But the truth is they were just playing it on their instruments, and then when a kid got into rock n roll he was exposed to other genres of music like blues or jazz. The rock scene had already integrated . He says Beatles created a bridge no one had imagined for youth pop and more adult styles . By 1965 , the British Invasion had resegregated the pop and R & B charts , Wald says .
Elijah Wald : Familiar myth holds that Beatles introduced white kids to black music . But the truth is they were just playing it on their instruments, and then when a kid got into rock n roll he was exposed to other genres of music like blues or jazz. The rock scene had already integrated . He says Beatles created a bridge no one had imagined for youth pop and more adult styles . By 1965 , the British Invasion had resegregated the pop and R & B charts , Wald says .