Rock, Roll

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Rock, Roll Rebellion
You cant get any cooler
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Alienation

• Rise of the juvenile delinquent
• The Wild One
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Catcher in the Rye

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The Beat Generation

• A bad rap
• Free form jazz and poetry
• Greenwich Village and San Francisco

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The Beat Lifestyle

• Influences -- blacks, hobos, jazz, drugs
• Wrote for the ear, not eye (jazz literature)
• Readings often accompanied by music
• Topics included sex (including homosexuality),
  drugs and Zen
• Lingo axe, blow, cool it, dig, later, the Man,
  pad, put on, score, square, tapped, hippie

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Beat Wordsmiths
Jack Kerouac
Lenny Bruce
Allen Ginsburg
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Beat Artists
Edward Hopper
Jackson Pollock
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Beat Effects

• Beginning on non-conformist uprising
• Hippies and New Left of the 1960s
• Punks of the 1970s
• Drug use in suburbia
• But simultaneously

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Rhythm and Blues

• Explicit lyrics banned from White radio
• Sixty Minute Man Baby Let Me Bang Your Box
• Filtered through to white kids with time,
• Alan Freed, Cleveland DJ

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Fats Domino
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Chuck Berry
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Little Richard Penniman
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Bill Haley and the Comets
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Pat Boone
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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Eddie Cochran
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In the Army Now
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Elvis Presley (1977)
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Charles Hardin Buddy Holly