Rock'n'Roll/Rock and Roll/Rock-and-Roll.

Thus spake AWILLIS957:
[nq:1]I'm not sure about the best way to write the term "rock and roll". Which of the variants do you think is best, and why? (I'm not using it to describe a noun.)[/nq]
Context is king. Any hints?

Simon R. Hughes

[nq:1]Thus spake AWILLIS957:[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm not sure about the best way to write the ... and why? (I'm not using it to describe a noun.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Context is king. Any hints?[/nq]
Indeed. What's the setting, the era in play? If you mean the contemporary genre, spell it (no rolling needed); if you mean earlier musical forms, you have a wider choice. The full term is dated, though it m

[nq:1]Thus spake AWILLIS957:[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm not sure about the best way to write the ... and why? (I'm not using it to describe a noun.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Context is king. Any hints?[/nq]
Noun: "rock 'n' roll". Verb (as in "Hello, Basingstoke! Are you ready to...): "rock and roll".

Ross Howard

Context: contemporary, but talking about the old music style. Someone says, "I only dance to rock and roll."
[nq:1]Noun: "rock 'n' roll". Verb (as in "Hello, Basingstoke! Are you ready to...): "rock and roll".[/nq]
So I take it the spelling in my quote above would be illogical, meaning that she only dances with the intention of rocking and rolling?

I hate the folksy apostrophe ver

[nq:1]I'm not sure about the best way to write the term "rock and roll". Which of the variants do you think is best, and why? (I'm not using it to describe a noun.)[/nq]
Assuming you mean the music genre my preference would be Rock and Roll or Rock & Roll, and I would always capitalize it. The Chuck Berry song is titled "Rock and Roll Music" so that's a reference right from the days of R&R.

[nq:1]Context: contemporary, but talking about the old music style. Someone says, "I only dance to rock and roll."[/nq]
Then leave it like that and let your editors worry about it. That's what you're paying them for!

[nq:2]Context: contemporary, but talking about the old music style. Someone says, "I only dance to rock and roll."[/nq]
[nq:1]Then leave it like that and let your editors worry about it. That's what you're paying them for![/nq]
But I'm a nerd; I have to know.

[nq:1]Subject: Re: Rock'n'Roll/Rock and Roll/Rock-and-Roll. From: Brian Wickham Assuming you mean the music genre my preference would be Rock and ... The Chuck Berry song is titled "Rock and Roll Music" so that's a reference right from the days of R&R.[/nq]
That's useful. It's certainly what I'd prefer.

AWILLIS957 filted:
[nq:2]Subject: Re: Rock'n'Roll/Rock and Roll/Rock-and-Roll. From: Brian Wickham Assuming you ... so that's a reference right from the days of R&R.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's useful. It's certainly what I'd prefer.[/nq]
This probably pulls no weight with anybody, but the "Genre" drop-down box in CDex's audio-file tagging feature lists the style as "Rock & Roll"..

Some

[nq:1]This probably pulls no weight with anybody, but the "Genre" drop-down box in CDex's audio-file tagging feature lists the style as "Rock & Roll"..[/nq]
Peasemarch might want to remember that in general writing, and certainly in academic & newspaper prose, we lowercase forms & genres. Think of:

ambient, anthem, aria, ballad, ballade, ballet, bebop, blues, boogie-woogie, breakbeat,