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  • Essay / The emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s - 2387

    Since the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s, people have developed a dislike towards it; not just what it represents, but also how it sounds: fast, chaotic and “dangerous”. Rock and roll of the 1950s represented a group of out-of-control teenagers whose attitudes were becoming more private, secretive, defensive, and sometimes disrespectful. These changes in adolescent behavior were part of an intense sociological change that society suffered after World War II. A time when many distinctive factors, including Rock and Roll, collaborated to create a generation gap in American families that continues to prevail to this day. A large psychological gap between parents and their children was created, and years later, this difference between the older and younger generations was referred to as the "generation gap." People, mainly parents, did not understand these intense changes their children were experiencing. It seemed that their teenagers were becoming more and more rebellious and defensive and that listening to rock and roll was, they believed, the root cause of all this rebellion. It is not only the behavior and attitude of adolescents that have changed, but also factors such as their fashion sense, movements and social circles have started to be affected. Parents targeted music as the main cause and forbade their children from watching certain videos and listening to certain songs, mainly because they believed these songs were too suggestive and would corrupt the minds of adolescents. Before World War II, teenagers were forced to take life seriously. According to Medovi in ​​his article "Bad boys: Masculinity, oppositional discourse, and American Youth Culture in the 1950's", men were expected to either serve in the military or find employment for... in the middle from the newspaper... ..It has many fan groups and continues to grow constantly, reaching millions of people. Even without rock and roll, these sociological changes would have occurred (Glenn 106). Young people began to seek values ​​and culture of their own while rejecting the values ​​and ideologies of their parents. Every generation has had a form of music that stands out from its era, and in the 1950s, rock and roll was in the spotlight. The music of this period was a symbol of changes in youth as it widened the gap created between adults and adolescents. Teenagers, through the lyrics and artists of rock and roll, found inspiration to act and behave in rebellious and immature ways. They wanted to prove to their parents that they were independent and different from previous generations. But most of all they wanted to shake, shake and roll.