MUSC 2150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Specialty Records, Sitaonair, Wdia
27 Oct 2015
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Image plays an important part in the appeal of rock"n"roll: appeal to teenagers and lack of appeal to middle-class, white adults. The 1950s: kinder, simpler and more innocent decade, conservative values reflected in popular tv shows like father knows best and leave it to beaver president dwight eisenhower, birth of the modern civil rights movement, playboy, rock & roll. 1948 state department official alger hiss was indicted for smuggling secrets to the soviets. 1951 julius and ethel rosenberg were tried and convicted on espionage charges: a wave of communist paranoia ( red scare , senator joseph mccarthy, chairman of the committee on government. Operations of the senate, lead anti-communism campaign (witch-hunt) during the early 50s: during this time the soviets launched the first satellite into space in 1957, Sputnik, which fueled an intense race for technological superiority between the two: began american"s passion for science-fiction stories and movies, aliens dropping out of the skies.
