History 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-13: Juvenile Delinquency, Anti-Social Behaviour, Mass In The Catholic Church
2 Mar 2017
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All shook up: ho(cid:449) ock (cid:858)n(cid:859) oll shaped a(cid:373)erica. Chapter 1: popular music and american culture, 1945-1955. 3-34: evolved from african-american genre of rhythm and blues, for the baby-boomers, music of liberation, every generation defines itself by rebelling against their elders. But the name allowed people to affirm that it was its own distinctive form, rather an a derivative. Blacks had learned that they could often sing things they could not say. It was important to frame performers as not being sexual predators, dangerous. Identifiable subversive sexual charge in the music: rock n roll was pivotal in reassessment of sexual attitudes and behaviour, rock n roll canteens were set up supervised dances that allowed youths to vent energies, enthusiasms and emotions. Women idealised, invariably treated as dependent on men, the property of their spouse: before rock n roll, 1/3 of songs on billboard charts were sung by females.
