ANT322H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Looney Tunes, African-American Music, American Bandstand
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Helped youth come to grips with their hormonal chemistry. Had two sides to it hard driving rock songs (little richard, etc. ) and romantic ballads. The subject matter reflected the lives and emotions of teens in the era, as well as rituals among young people, including coming-of-age ones. Adolescents became teenagers at age sixteen, which is when they graduated from high school, and at this time the teen lifestyle began. Fans of elvis presley and the whole rock scene welcomed the psychopathy of the moment a chance to live differentially through the abrasiveness of rock and roll. The male rocker"s appearance was stylized by elvis and james dean; for female rockers there was either a hard or soft look. This redesign of the body to fit a self-styled coolness model was implicitly confrontational and psychopathic it flew in the face of the adult world of stodgy suits and prim and proper hair.
