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• Teen Culture

3. Teens: An Independent subculture

• Teen population: 13 million

• Total income: $7 billion a year

• $10.55 a week

• Rock and roll spoke to teens style, slang, love, independence from parents

4. Technology

5. New Technology

• Transistor radio

The only regret I have about the transistor is its use for rock and roll. --Walter Brattain, inventor of the transistor

6. New Technology

• Portable record players

7. New Technology

• 45s

8. New Technology

• TV

9. The Promoters

10. Alan Freed

• Cleveland disc jockey; Moondog

• Coins the term rock and roll

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12. Dick Clark

• Hosted the popular show American Bandstandaired daily at 3:30

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• The Rock Stars

14. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Maybellene Chuck Berry

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16. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Tutti Frutti Little Richard

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18. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Pat Boone

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20. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Sh-Boom Chords/Crew Cuts

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22. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire

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24. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Wake Up Little Susie The Everly Brothers

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26. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley and the Comets

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• Before Elvis, there was nothing.

• --John Lennon

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• Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force of the 20 th century.

• --Leonard Bernstein

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34. the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear. It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons. Frank Sinatra Time magazine likened rock concerts to Hitlers mass meetings a menace to morals Music Journal J. Edgar Hoover called it a corrupting influence

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36. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Hound Dog Elvis Presley

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38. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Jailhouse Rock Elvis Presley

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40. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles All Shook Up Elvis Presley

41. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Thatll Be the Day Buddy Holly

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43. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles La Bamba Ritchie Valens

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45. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Chantilly Lace The Big Bopper

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47. Don McLean memorializes this crash the day the music diedin his song American Pie.

48. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Tequilla The Champs

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50. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles There Goes My Baby The Drifters

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52. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Only You The Platters

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54. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Blueberry Hill Fats Domino

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56. 50s Playlist Artists and Titles Artists and Titles Ricky Nelson

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• Rock and Rolls Obstacles in the late 1950s

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62. Payola Scandal