1950s Music Research Paper

Introduction:

“The 1950s marked a new chapter in American History” (Leeds Wiki). The music of today is completely different then the music of the past decades. A plethora of music of the 1950s was heavily affected by the Cold war. During this time of bloodshed a new genre of music had emerged from the battles going on around it, rock and roll. In the 1950s, music was heavily affected by the Cold war.

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Propaganda was very prevalent during the1950s era. Propaganda being defined as, “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view”. One of the main theme of most propaganda was that America’s enemies wanted to enslave the planet and to destroy everything America loved dearly. Proclamations like these were international orders directed by Moscow, therefore the United States government was not above suspicion.Men like Joe McCarthy, however worried by making hysteria with “hit and enough to cause disruptions and loss of faith.” (Leeds Wiki 2). His followers thought that there were communists hidden everywhere. The American public was extremely disturbed and

Popular artists of their era were men like Mario Lanza and Tony Bennett. Through these well known voices a new sound emerged from the very classical tunes, it was rock and roll. The genre Rock and roll was a new thundering mixture of country-western music with Negro rhythm and blues. The reactions of these adults hearing this new sound, was not so great. They thought the musicians of rock and roll were callow, pimply faced boys with duck tail haircuts and untrained voices. The man who turned this genre of music into a national teen religion was a 21 year old truck driver name Elvis Presley. The moment he went on stage adolescent teenage girls went crazy for the king of rock and roll. though this is not surprising Elvis was not fit for the family