MUSC 2150 Chapter : unit 3 summary
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Tuned in to rock and roll and rhythm and blues, well out of earshot of their parents. When rhythm & blues broke into the mainstream in 1955, r&r was born. White teenagers during this time thought of r&r as "their" music. Discuss the broader historical context of the 1950s and early 1960s. 1950s was known as the kinder, simpler, more innocent decade. Birth of modern civil rights, playboy magazine, and rock & roll. Soviets sent first satellite, while americans put the first men on the moon. American economy boomed = goods like cars and televisions were used much more than in the decades preceding it. These car am radios played a significant role in the development of r&r as teens. Much discrimination and racism towards african americans. In the years after wwii - rhythm and blues increasingly became the music of the youth culture. "first wave" - from 1955-1960 - people like little richard, chuck berry, elvis presley,
