Unfortunately, due to the extreme segregation of the times, blacks couldn't identify with the white culture all around them- the white culture that hated them. Instead, the black culture identified with its own music. ... A Century of Pop describes yet another form of R&B to emerge during the fifties: doo-wop. ... Hugh Gregory illustrates the influence of R&B music on Rock "n" Roll in his book A Century of Pop. Artists like Fats Domino and Little Richard took the sounds of Rhythm and Blues and gospel to the pop music scene worldwide. ...

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Popular Cultures In The 1960's Music became more popular when the first jukebox was invented. ... There were lots of influences from America in British pop in the late 50's and 60's. ... British pop music was different to that of American Pop music, although such artists imitated influences and sounds as Cliff Richard. ... Radio BBC didn't play any pop music. ... The Beatles on the other hand were clean cut pop stars that wrote songs about love and peace. ...

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Through their trusted instrument, guitar players have become guitar heroes by subtly, quietly, loudly, and fervently fighting to shape this world and the numerous cultures that inhabit it. ... Nationalist music provided a voice for different cultures, a trend that would echo through the next century at a smaller scale: the voice of the people in those cultures (Hilfiger). ... As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. ... Where Hercules used his strength to save people and fight monsters, Bob Dylan fought indirectly for the rig...

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Young people who were frustrated and bored, dissatisfied with they perceived as an idealist hippie culture, the corruption and prejudiced authority of police, the government, the church, the education system, the social welfare system, and pretty much every system, invented a new, entirely original scene of dissidence, angst, and rebellious philosophy. ... Punk rock was not so much a sub-culture as it was a counter-culture. ... Guy Debord describes this objective as such: "In a situation where there are no longer any tenable rules of action, culture's every result propels it toward its ow...

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Country music never crossed racial lines, though, and never gained acceptance in black culture. ... (Edmonds, 26) Rather than continue with the "pop" formula of his past Motown hits, he used the pain to record his greatest record. ...

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