Peterson appears to forget what rock and roll is all about in his piece on it's birth. He clearly outlines the clinical production process of the industry through focusing on the fight to be different on radio to the accessibility of the vinyl records. At no point does he ever give reference to the music itself.
He even goes as far as to discard the talent of the early blues and country musicians who's talent clearly gave at least inspiration to the generation of rock music, let alone contribute to it's birth.
The genre of rock and roll has always focused heavily on attitude and sound; the desirability of picking up a simple structured song and enter fantasy land for a whole 3 and a half minutes. To not explore the development of the musicians and instruments within the genre leaves his piece cold and patchy.
This post offers a reasonable take on one of the glaring omissions in Peterson's theory but doesn't really attempt to summarise any of the very useful things that he had to say.
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