Much more than just a style of rock and roll influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. In addition, rock and roll may have helped the cause of the civil rights movement in Africa because the two American teens and white American teens enjoyed the music. This has also led to other styles, including psychedelic rock, progressive rock, glam rock, alternative rock, punk and heavy metal.
Many rock and roll songs all deal with the problem of cars, school, dating, and clothing. Rock and roll songs explained the events and conflicts that most listeners can relate to from a point in their lives.Subjects who were not covered in music is like sex, was introduced into the rock and roll. This new music tries to break boundaries and to express real emotions that people feel, but does not speak. A revival in American youth culture began to take place.
Race
Rock and roll emerged when racial tensions in the United States has entered a new phase with the beginning of the civil rightsmovement for desegregation, which led to the Supreme Court abolished the policy of "separate but equal "in 1954 but left politics to be very difficult to apply to the United States. The combination of white and black musical elements of rock and roll, it would trigger a strong reaction in the United States, with many condemning the breaking down barriers based on color.
On the other side of the stone, the arguments and the deployment was seen as a white player to take charge of African American music, and as a black singer to reach white audiences [92] Many observers see. Rock and Roll as announced by the way for desegregation, the creation of a new form of music that promote racial cooperation and shared experiences.
teen culture
Main article: Youth subculture
Rock and roll is often identified with the emerging youth culture of the baby-boom First, second relatively greater prosperity, leisure and rock and roll has passed through subcultures. This means not only music, absorbed by the radio, buy records, jukeboxes and television programs as American Bandstand, but also extends to the film, clothing, hair, cars and motorcycles, and classical language. The contrast between parents and youth culture exemplified by the rock and roll is a recurrent source of concern for the older generation, who worry about adolescent delinquency and social upheaval, especially for more rock and roll culture shared by groups of different racial and social issues. In America, concern even sent artifacts of youth culture and comics. In "No Love in the Rock and Roll" Life's True Romance (1956), a teenager on the challenge of child rock and roll loving it drops for those who love traditional music adults to help parents. In the United Kingdom, where the prosperity of the postwar period is more limited, rock and roll became embedded culture that already exists with Teddy Boy movement, largely working-class origins, and finally to theRocking more sustainable. Rock and roll was considered popular music refocus the youth market, often celebrated teenage fashion, as in Carl Perkins 'Blue Suede Shoes "(1956), and Dion and the Belmonts' Youth in Love "(1960).
Dance styles
From the early years of the early 1950s by the early 1960s, rock and roll gave birth to a crazy new dance. Teenagers found the irregular rhythm of the backbeat especially suited to reviving the jitterbug dancing of the era's big band. Sock hops, "gym dances, and dancing at home basement angry, and American teens watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand to keep the last dance style and fashion. Since the mid-1960s, as rock and roll "provided little bit" rock ", followed later genres of dance, beginning with a twist, and leads to funk, disco, house and techno.