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Challenges of rock and roll music in America in 1950s

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3 Challenges of rock and roll music in America in 1950s 2 Drugs and sex 3 Religion 3 Fashion 4 Expression 4 Conclusion 5 Works Cited 6 Student Name Professor Name Course Name Date Challenges of rock and roll music in America in 1950s The article is generally talks about rock and roll music in the 1950s. However, despite the fact that the youth especially teenagers found the music fascinating, the adults and people with Christian values found it to be less appealing and thought it had a negative impact on

Challenges of rock and roll music in America in 1950s

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Table of ContentsChallenges of rock and roll music in America in 1950s................................................................................2Drugs and sex..........................................................................................................................................3Religion....................................................................................................................................................3Fashion....................................................................................................................................................4Expression...............................................................................................................................................4Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................5Works Cited.................................................................................................................................................6
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2Student NameProfessor NameCourse NameDateChallenges of rock and roll music in America in 1950sThe article is generally talks about rock and roll music in the 1950s. In order to learn more about rock and rock, I researched from various sources and works cited are listed at the end of article. Rock and roll is a genre of music which originated in America in the late1940s and early1950s which was accepted and rejected in equal measure with regards to the audience. The music is said to have evolved from drum beads by Africans and Celtic Folk music in Europe who had immigrated to America. Alan Freed was responsible bringing the music in mainstream. The termrock and roll is quoted from slang language of the African Americans in 1920s which was code word for sexual intercourse. The music was further popularized by the fact that in the early 1950s it was featured in commercials, films and TV sound tracks. Back then, most of the rock and roll artists were African Americans. The music was initially targeted for teenagers, poor white folks and black ghetto youths. The entrance of the music was considered to be a major revolution and upheaval in the music industry especially with the new technology in music what could now be recorded in 33 and 45 rpm. However, despite the fact that the youth especially teenagers found the music fascinating, the adults and people with Christian values found it to be less appealing and thought it had a negative impact on the young generation and devalued their culture and led to moral degradation at the time. The goal of the paper is to bring to light the
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3social challenges of rock and roll in America in 1950. I will review some of the challenges and give a detailed explanation in accordance to the works cited. The challenges are as follows:Racism Racism can be described as prejudice of individuals due to the color of their skin. In the 1950s, racism in America was at its highest high. Whites believed they were superior to the black Americans and there existed racial segregation (Kramer, 111). Rock and roll artists were mostly blacks and the racist’s whites found it unacceptable since the music had a lot of white fans. To add insult to injury, the music also brought together the American black and white fans together despite there being racial segregation and this caused a lot of resentment towards the music from the white racists due to its ability to break the barrier of racial segregation. Drugs and sexThis genre of music was highly associated with this drugs and substance abuse(Weinstein, 27-40). Most of the rock and roll artists were users of hard drugs and this was evident as their life styles were now in the public domain. The life style had a spillover effect to their fans that adored then and tried to copy their life styles. They also made recreation drugs look more appealing to the youth. Drug abuse often led to sexual immorality; furthermore, the artists were also associated with soliciting sexual favors (popularly known as groupies) in the back stage and after shows in wild parties where they also abused drugs (Spracklen 14).ReligionAmerica in the 1950 was a predominantly Christian nation. The rock and roll artists seemed to explore religion in their music by seeking to establish rock and roll as a religion with their god (Luhr, 300). Most Christians also believed that the music was satanic especially due to
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