Its the end of the world as we know it

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Its the end of the world as we know it

• Creating the world that YOU live in today!

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Pop Culture
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New Forms of Entertainment

• Mass media grows up
• Television 1948 gives laughs, drama, news,
  interviews etc.
• Advertising explodes 2 billion in 1960
• Conform, must-haves, trends
• Stereotypes and concern for effects on kids
• Movie industry hit
• TV TV dinners 1954

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• Beginning around 1955, rock and roll, a music of
  outlandish performers, amplified guitars, and
  aggressive lyrics, replaced jazz and pop
  standards in commercial prominence. It is often
  discussed as the charged collision of two
  racially separate genres African-American rhythm
  and blues (RB) and white country music. These
  outsider musical styles, and the often
  working-class, Southern, and/or black performers
  who championed them, were embraced by TEENAGERS
  who were often middle class, Northern, and white
  and who had emerged in the affluence of that
  decade as an economic force to be reckoned with.
  As controversy raged about Elvis Presley's
  gyrating hips and the "leerics" of hit songs, a
  music industry veteran argued that the music had
  only become controversial because "the white
  pop kids started buying the RB disks and playing
  them at home" (Martin and Segrave, p. 17).

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Teenagers and Music

• Literature- The Beat Generation and
  Nonconformity- Go against the flow
• Rhythm and Blues- Alan Freed, Cleveland and
• American music- Rock n Roll
• Teen idols/Parent complain

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Mass Autos

• Cheap fuel
• Easy credit
• Advertising
• Suburban living
• Nation-wide highway network- 1956
• Consumerism- success by ownership
• Planned obsolescence

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Cold War Fears Are Still Everywhere
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Homework Select one of the following assignments
to complete for Tuesday.

• Poem The 40 and 50s
• 3-5 four-line stanzas
• Focus each statement on the time period/events/
  people
• Reflect and inform your audience
• Be specific when possible
• Title/Theme

• Song The 40 and 50s
• Create 3 verses with four lines in each
• One chorus - 4 lines
• Focus each statement on the time period/events/
  people
• Be specific when possible
• Title/Subject