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Rock 'N Roll Music - The Diary of Youth

Rock n' roll is best described as a "hybrid ***** many musical styles: white country and western, black guitar blues and rhythm ***** blues, and both black ***** white gospel music." (De Curtis)

Rock ' ***** began in the early 1950's as a dancing music strictly for teenagers and became known in the 1960's as simply rock music. This was because ***** no longer stressed music to dance to.

Throughout ***** decades, rock 'n roll has become a way ***** young people ***** express their emotions and problems, such as love, school, peer pressure, cars ***** parents. It has also been used as a significant display of rebellion against general authority and adult values.

Since the *****, ***** 'n ***** and rock music ***** taken a stand against the American eco*****mic and political systems, as well as a general defiance against traditional values. It has also been an outlet for positive expression and a way to promote good energy. (Szatmary)

***** ***** 1950's, rock 'n roll spoke out against many of the institutions that worked to control ***** people of all different economic ***** social classes of the Silent Years of the Eisenhower regime that took place from 1952-1960. Elvis Presley and many others ***** the first famous rock 'n roll musicians were viewed by older generations as villains who sought to destroy the decency and stability of the youth.

***** to parents of the *****, rock 'n ***** started a trend of youth separation from *****ir parents and traditional family *****. It also created a distance between teenagers and both the home and church.

Rock 'n Roll and Society

***** the rule ***** society change, so does the music. As American values were shifting through this period, a corresponding shift can be observed in ***** ********** roll, as it moved a***** from ***** simpler rhythm and blues of the 1950s to the more literate ***** ********** charged subject matter ***** ***** 1960s. (Edsforth)

And as the music reflected these changes it al***** became symbolic of them, producing a defining music***** figure at each major turning point: Bob Dylan ***** the more cerebral beginnings of ***** radical sixties, the Beatles during its more idealistic middle period, and the Rolling Stones closer to the end.

***** ***** ***** rock 'n roll stars of this decade were ***** poor and working class families so many of the songs attacked ***** upper middle-class concepts. Throughout the 1950's, the United States' capitalist economy was largely consumer oriented. The production of heavy industrial goods like the ones needed for the growing defense sector was not affected, but consumer commodities ***** becoming ***** mainstay of the American economy. (Curtis)

The mass ***** of ***** commodities was due to the wealth ***** a large percentage of the population. The Untied States had predicted the ***** increase in wealth among consumers ***** of the new dominance ***** the world capitalist system after World War II (Chapple). The ***** Bureaucratic