Rock ‘n’ roll became a recognized cultural Thing by late 1964

Evidence

And so, ten months after the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show and certainly by the time LBJ trounced Barry Goldwater, rock ’n’ roll was a Thing. Sally Kempton’s follow-up page-one Voice story was pegged to the mid-September arrival of the Animals—a British blues band who had a #1 hit version of the venerable New Orleans folk lament “House of the Rising Sun,” lifted from Bob Dylan, who stole his arrangement from Dave Van Ronk. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 636

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘House of the Rising Sun’ genealogy — New Orleans folk lament to Van Ronk to Dylan to the Animals — is a perfect chain-of-appropriation nugget for an essay on how ‘stolen’ material cycles through a scene.