MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alan Freed, The Beach Boys, Ryerson University
2 Mar 2017
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Rock"n"roll brought styles previously on the margins to the mainstream, including rhythm and blues and country music. Rock"n"rolls not a new style, nor a single style. It was a marketing term for identifying and audience. Marketed to the baby boom generation which was younger than previous youth music"s such as swing. As jazz evolved with recordings, rock"n"roll evolved with tv. Post ww2 struggle for military and technological dominance between us and russia. Fear of communism, which hunts for suspected communist sympathizers , many of whom were artists and intellectuals. Consistent fear of nuclear war influences all levels of culture. Baby boomers attracted to rock"n"roll as a symbol of rebellion and generational identification. 1950s saw the invention of the teenager as an identity and marketing demographic. Popular music a form of resistance to the values and attitudes of the parent culture. Rock was the safe way to rebel. The kings of rhythm record rocket 88 in 1951.
