History 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Day The Music Died, American Bandstand, Alan Freed
6 Feb 2018
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Pat boone, american bandstand and the day the music died . They died: memorialized in american pie as the day the music died, metaphor for all the changes that occurred in the 1960s, the nation had lost its innocence, moved onto the turmoil of the 1960s. The day the music died marked the death of the first gen of rock and roll: marked the near death of rock and roll as we know it. Teens were faced w/ pressures to fit in w/ society to fit in w/ a consensus: rock and roll became a unique means of self-expression for teens at this time. Re-cap: chuck berry, elvis, alan freed: af molded the teenage audience, posed challenges to the social order in the usa during the 1950s, rock and roll engendered resistance forma rigid, conservative structure, political, social, cultural. I. e. the link ppl tried to draw between juvenile delinquency and rock and roll. Today: other elements of this conservative backlash.
