Rock And Roll In The 60's

Music was a part of everyday life for teenagers as well as their parents. As teenagers were given more opportunities in the decisions they were making for their own futures, they also thought they should have the opportunity to listen to whatever music they wanted to. Elvis Presley became very popular during this time period and many of the teens began to imitate him in their daily lives, (Mathieson). With these actions happening, it

Rock and roll music emerged as a part of American teen culture during the notably conservative time period in the country’s history which shortly followed the traumatic events of World War II. Being that the genre’s target audience was white teenagers, many Americans- already overwhelmed and on-edge due to the anti-communist movement inspired by the Cold War- were apprehensive about the influence that this up-and-coming style of music might have on their country’s future. America’s youth openly accepted rock and roll’s racially integrated culture of performers and embraced the relatively lewd nature of many songs and performances associated with the genre, much to the dismay of their elders.

The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period of time with great social and technological change. Some people called it the “decade of discontent” because of the race riots in Detroit and La, and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of “peace, love, and harmony”. It was called this because of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children. (Britannica) The sixties were about assassination, unforgettable fashion, new styles of music, civil rights, gay and women’s liberation, Vietnam, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, peace marches, sexual freedom, drug experimentation, and Woodstock. All of these components caused a revolutionary change in the world of popular Music.

After WWII the teenage culture began to solidify once the USA recognized teenagers as a different group. Perhaps most important, by the end of the 1950s intergenerational identification had been reinforced and, to some extent, legitimized (Altschuler). Instead of trying to contain the teenagers parents would allow the children to go after whatever they wanted. For example in the movie Rebel Without a Cause, the movie takes place within a day, the main character Jim is able to enter and leave the house as he pleases no matter the time. In the movie Blackboard Jungle the children are allowed to pick fights with teachers and commit crimes like stealing a newspaper truck. After living through the different wars and the Great Depression parents wanted their kids to peruse their dreams. By doing this teenagers would

Rock ‘n roll fueled various disagreements between teenagers and parents because parents believed rock n roll promoted delinquency and deviancy. For instance in an article excerpt “What’s the Big Deal? Rebel Without a Cause (1955)-Part 1”, by Eric D.Snieder, it states that “The context: ‘Juvenile Delinquency’ was a buzzword in the early 1950s, a catch-all term for basically any teenage behavior that wasn’t strictly within the limits of accepted decorum. The advent of rock'n'roll brought about an epidemic of ‘ juvenile delinquency,’ insofar as it caused teens to swivel their hips and to occasionally stay out past curfew at sock hops (dances)... While there had always been a gap between generations, things were changing faster than they ever had before.

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During the 1950s African Americans migrated into the urban cities for jobs, which caused for African Americans and whites to be in close proximity to each other. This closeness created overlap in various fields including music. With the arrival of rock and roll a revolution started brewing in the world of popular music. Rock and Roll, a combination of rhythm, blues and country music took the younger generation by storm. Bill Haley and His Comets became the first group to be labelled rock and rollers. Their “Rock Around the Clock” (1955) was a smash hit. Chuck Berry was another noted black performer who blended country with rhythm and blues in “Maybellene”. Other musicians were Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P Richardson and Fats

The white teens from poorer backgrounds growing up in border states “concocted the pulsating mixture of African America-inspired rhythm and blues and country and western” that would mold into rockabilly (Szatmary, 30). Country and western was not eliciting much controversy but the introduction of Elvis would stir the

The generation of youth was way larger that any other in any recent memory. The prosperity of this era gave them money to spend on records and phonographs, and by the end of the decade the phenomenon of rock and roll helped to define the difference between the youth and

My topic is 1960’s music and i will be explain stuff about 1960s music and 1960 music artists like rock and roll music, the rolling stones and the different kinds of 1960’s music. For starters I’m going to tell you about 1960’s rock and roll. Roots Rock and Hard Rock was popular music in the 60’s.

Teenagers decided to form and voice their own political, social, and economic opinions because they did not appreciate the way adults spoke for them and made decisions without even asking them what they thought. They had to become more aware and knowledgeable on their own because adults shielded them from the world. They were only exposed to these issues through music and

In the 1950’s a new type of music emerged in the United States. Rock and Roll was here to stay. “Rock musicians not only addressed contemporary events, they pushed the conventional musical boundaries.” Rock and Roll had a significant impact on politics, the music industry, and pop culture in the United States during the 1960 's.

Yet, music has a very predominate significance on the younger generation. Adolescents have been found to spend an average of twenty-one hours per week listening to music, not including background music (Gentile 154). Not only does this show the principle role of music in teenagers lives, it also expresses just how easily they can be influenced by it. Douglas Gentile states the “amount of listening is not uniform across all groups of youth. First, age makes a big difference: adolescents devote more time to music than schoolage children, and older adolescents devote more time to music than younger adolescents” (Gentile 155).

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The world would not be the vivacious place that it is today without some chaos. Drugs, fashion, and music are three different things that have influenced teenagers for the last 5 decades. How did teenagers become the way that they are today? For the past 50 years, the choices that teenagers make have changed drastically, mainly because of celebrities and public figures. Ripped jeans? Long hair? Most likely, these style choices wouldn’t be popular if it weren’t for the musical influence. Throughout the 20th century, the choices many teenagers made were influenced by the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, Michael Jackson, and Nirvana.