f music, Rock & Roll, flourished throughout households in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This particular style of music appealed to teenagers at that specific time frame, however, Rock & Roll was quite distasteful to parents as it was believed to be a negative impact on adolescents. Jody Pennington and J. Ronald Oakley’s “Don't Knock the Rock: Race, Business, and Society in the Rise of Rock and Roll” depict the rise and fall of Rock & Roll and its social changes within the decade spiritually, physically, and mentally throughout cultures throughout the decade. Furthermore, they examine Rock & Roll to determine was this the cause of diminishing traditional customs. Resultantly, Pennington argues YES as opposed to Oakley’s opinion. Contrastingly, Stephanie
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Most were reasonably well-groomed, well-behaved, and active in school and extracurricular activities.” This being said, school in the previous decades were designed to solely transform a child into a working adult. School and extracurricular kept children out of trouble, but Rock & Roll, being a subculture, was not accepted by whites as well as it was black families. By previously stating, lower class families did not follow traditional customs, therefore this genre of music played no large effect physically on them rather than providing entertainment, while giving children variety in what is becoming so popular, while also allowing teenager to set themselves apart from one another. This music was not accepted because it had strayed so much from what americans were use to. The uprising of a black cultivated musical category was becoming popular, and so was the rebelling of teenagers towards their parents and their tradition. The music that was considered popular by adults were being fused with african american techniques that together caused sexual arousal with appearance, and due to a booming economy, it became necessary that any funds teenagers would acquire were to be spent on Rock & Roll related objects, as Pennington would argue. However, along the lines of composing his argument he dismisses that the exact children who acquired a taste for Rock & Roll were in fact …show more content…
When viewing the traditional family as one to mimic, as their is in the television series “Leave it to Beaver”, when attempting too hard to emulate something often weakens it due to failure. She shows how this “tradition” family obsession showed major problems and flaws within families from parenting to sexual practices. Coonz epxplains that their was no real “Leave it to Beaver” family, and that families in that time period had always had somewhat broken family ties. However, as time progressed, the gap got smaller, and that there is no real way to fulfill it with the ideal perfect family in mind, but however work as one to solve a problem versus pretending as if it was not there. Coontz’s only elaborate on what is obvious, but when viewing from her perspective it is clear that social disruptions were inevitable despite the factor of Rock & Roll
Most were reasonably well-groomed, well-behaved, and active in school and extracurricular activities.” This being said, school in the previous decades were designed to solely transform a child into a working adult. School and extracurricular kept children out of trouble, but Rock & Roll, being a subculture, was not accepted by whites as well as it was black families. By previously stating, lower class families did not follow traditional customs, therefore this genre of music played no large effect physically on them rather than providing entertainment, while giving children variety in what is becoming so popular, while also allowing teenager to set themselves apart from one another. This music was not accepted because it had strayed so much from what americans were use to. The uprising of a black cultivated musical category was becoming popular, and so was the rebelling of teenagers towards their parents and their tradition. The music that was considered popular by adults were being fused with african american techniques that together caused sexual arousal with appearance, and due to a booming economy, it became necessary that any funds teenagers would acquire were to be spent on Rock & Roll related objects, as Pennington would argue. However, along the lines of composing his argument he dismisses that the exact children who acquired a taste for Rock & Roll were in fact …show more content…
When viewing the traditional family as one to mimic, as their is in the television series “Leave it to Beaver”, when attempting too hard to emulate something often weakens it due to failure. She shows how this “tradition” family obsession showed major problems and flaws within families from parenting to sexual practices. Coonz epxplains that their was no real “Leave it to Beaver” family, and that families in that time period had always had somewhat broken family ties. However, as time progressed, the gap got smaller, and that there is no real way to fulfill it with the ideal perfect family in mind, but however work as one to solve a problem versus pretending as if it was not there. Coontz’s only elaborate on what is obvious, but when viewing from her perspective it is clear that social disruptions were inevitable despite the factor of Rock & Roll