Teenagers as a societal group didn't really exist until the 1950s - after the Great Depression and World War II eras. Once they became prominent in society, teenagers essentially controlled popular culture in the 50s and 60s. Often associated with sex, drugs, and rebellion, teenagers tend to be viewed upon with a disapproving stigma by adults. Throughout suburbanization, the young teenagers began to find their voice in society, through which they established themselves as an ubiquitous age group in America.
Prior to the second world war, teenagers were considered "young adults" and treated as just that: with the responsibilities of an adult like jobs and draft participation but without the freedoms that came with adulthood like the right to vote. With the new easy access of the automobile came road trips with peers and drive-in movies and restaurants. With seemingly limitless boundaries due to the popularization of the automobile, teenagers began to experiment with sexuality and pushing the boundaries, frustrating parents and angering elders. Teens also began to turn towards a pro-integration stance with the growing civil rights movement. The 1950s was an era of experimentation, suburbanization, but most importantly: rock and roll. The new style of music swept the nation among teenagers and left a permanent stamp on history. The style of music stems from what the adults of the time period called "black music" or the combination of jazz and rhythm and blues typically sung by black people. These songs, however, were not widely receptive at first because the black singers were not appealing to the white demographic the music needed to be successful. Music producers then came up with the idea to have white singers cover these songs; this is how teen idols of the decade rose to fame like Elvis, Johnny Cash, and the Beatles. Parents especially despised this style of music because they believed it promoted sexualization and - the taboo of the first half of the century - racial integration.
The 1950s through the 1950s was a turbulent time in history. ... Finally, the 1960s exploded, and the country was swept up into a wave of tumult. ... The economy in the 1950s boomed. ... Clothing lines began to recognize teenagers as a blossoming demographic. ... James Dean became a 1950s icon. ...
The subject of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and Georgia Gibbs, many interesting facts were arisen about the two famous groups during the time spent on the top of the charts in the 1950s. ... However, the teenagers loved it. ... Georgia Gibbs began singing in Boston ballrooms as a teenager, and made her recording debut in 1938 under her given name, Fredda Gibson. ... She curtailed her professional activities considerably in the 1960s, though she remained active to some degree through the ensuing decades. ... It shocked the parents of many of the white teenagers who brought it home and pl...
By the 1950s, the migration of Amer. blacks to cities in the North had resulted in the cross-fertilization of elements of blues with the uptempo rhythms of jazz to create rhythm and blues. ... In the 1960s, British rock groups, incl. the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, became internationally influential. Rock quickly attracted the allegiance of Western teenagers, who, with new disposable incomes, replaced young adults as the chief audience for popular music. From the late 1960s black pop gained a huge white audience. ...
Book Review on The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s David Farber's "Age of Great Dreams" sketches an arresting picture of what life was like between 1960-1969. Farber places the 1960s in proper historical context, which helps define this turbulent era as the logical extension and culmination of an earlier time that came after the Great Depression, World War II, and before Watergate and women's liberation. This book starts talking about the beginning of the 1960s and how everyone seemed to have great expectations for better things to come. In the early 1960s, 60 mill...
This meant that many teenagers were now able to flock to the south coast holiday resorts. ... This shows that there was social unrest during this period, as teenagers were willing to clash over petty things such as style and music, it must have been deemed acceptable in the first place. However, it can be argued that crime rates during the 1950s were relatively low. ... However in the 1950s and 1960s, Britain became a more affluent society, with a higher disposable income and a greater influence from America; 91% of the population owned a television in 1964, compared to 4% in 1951. ... The nu...
In the 1950s the weekly attendance was down to 21.1 million and by the 1960s 9.6 million. ... The location of the multiplex cinema is aimed at families, teenagers and adults as there is a range of entertainment in the same leisure complex such as restaurants, shopping outlets, bowling, swimming and nightclubs which means that audiences can spend the whole day at the leisure complex then helping to boost cinema admissions. ... In previous years it was the youth who were attracted to the cinema as the type of films being shown were mostly aimed at teenagers. ...
The next era of African American music was called, "Classical African American Music (1860s -1950s)." ... In the 1950s there was a major shift form instrumental being the most popular music to vocal music becoming the most popular music. ...
The older generation, the "consensus era" of the 1950s, as John Davidson, author of Nation of Nations described them, "[the consensus era] embraced the material benefits of prosperity as evidence of virtue of "the American way." ... Some musicians in the 1960s tried to unite the age-divided country, or at least tried to make those who opposed the counterculture movement understand it, but their songs ended up widening the rift even further. ... Whatever the intentions of the artist, music acted more as a social divisor then anything else during the 1960s. ... Consequently...
You may have only few seconds to save a life when you in an emergency. Is anything you can do in an emergency until help arrives? You should do, because the only person you may have to depend on is yourself. First aid is the immediate care given to a victim of injury or sudden illness before profess...
The term "modern civil rights movement" refers to the black movement that emerged in the South during the 1950s, when large masses of black people became directly involved in economic boycotts, street marches, mass meetings, going to jail by the thousands, and a whole range of disruptive tactics commonly referred to as nonviolent direct action. ... Philip Randolph, the leader of the movement, anticipated the upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s when in 1943 he explicitly called for mass nonviolent demonstrations against Jim Crow laws, to model after Gandhi's passive resistance move...
