How useful id the Production of Culture perspective for understanding the birth of Rock n Roll

Having studied Cultural Studies last year I feel that the production of culture model is a useful tool in analysing the emergence of any new youth / popular culture. Often when looking at new cultures, musical or not it is easy to overlook the actual social, economic and political circumstances of the time that conditioned the movement – it would not be a proper analysis of the emergence of Hip-Hop if the researcher did not take into consideration the troubles of Afro-Americans during the late 1970’s and 1980’s.
However one element that the model fails to understand is the actual style and sound of the music – individual artistic expression is not considered to be a deciding factor in the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll which is why, I believe the model cannot be the only tool used to understand the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll but a useful nether the less - for any study of popular culture is incomplete without studying the culture in its wider, more determining context of general political economy – for whatever else pop culture may be, it is deeply embedded in capitalist, for-profit mass production.