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Rock and Roll it can be argued, was a celebration of the Western System. While on the surface it reflected the rebelliousness of American youth, and a generation gap, it also reflected gross materialism, freedom of expression and overt opinion. In a Cold War world of totalitarian regimes and hardship, it reflected the US as a society of abundance and freedom. |
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
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Rock n RollBill Haley - Rip It Up
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Elvis Presley, ‘the white boy who sang colored’, hardly realised in the mid 1950s that his music was helping pave the way for American racial integration. It was the black roots of much of Presley’s music, as well as his suggestive gyrations, that made him such a controversial performer. Whatever the fuss, white teenagers liked the music, and it blazed a trail for many |