Rock & Roll as Cultural Phenomenon

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" Rock-and-roll is both a music and a lifestyle an has nurtured both since its inception. As a music, it was derived from earlier musical forms including be-bop and the blues. As a lifestyle, it has been manifested in the non-conformist behavior of its practitioners. Rock-and-roll came into being in the 1950s at a time of social conformity among the white middle-class who constituted the majority of the country. The nation was still recovering in some sense from World War II while at the same time facing a new sense of tension because of the Cold War, a new kind of confrontation that seemed to have no set rules. Young people as always wanted to differentiate themselves from their parents, and pressures to conform at home could be overcome through music when out in the world. Many of the rock-and-roll oriented movies of the 1950s acted out precisely the kind of social confrontation.."

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