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Rock and Roll and the American Dream
What is the American Dream and how did Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash personify its ideals?
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What is the American Dream and how did Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash personify its ideals?
How does the story of “Hound Dog” demonstrate music culture’s racial mixing as it differed from mainstream American life in the 1950s?
How did the recordings Sam Phillips produced at Sun Records, including Elvis Presley’s early work, reflect trends of urbanization and integration in the 1950s American South?
How has Memphis music culture provided one example of art’s capacity to challenge the racial boundaries that have so often structured American life?
How did Gospel influence American popular music?
What made the teenager a source of anxiety during the 1950s?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
How did Country Music influence Rock and Roll and the musicians who made it?
How is Rock and Roll's power, at least in part, a result of its being born on the margins of society?
What role did the so-called "teen idols" of the late 1950s play in bringing Rock and Roll into mainstream American culture?
How did movies help to introduce Rock and Roll culture to mainstream audiences in the 1950s?
How did the Beatles’ image as a “rock band” affect young people in America?
What is Folk music? To what extent did Folk Rock sustain the spirit of Folk music?
How did Ritchie Valens meld traditional Mexican music and Rock and Roll?
How did growing up in post-WWII Liverpool influence the Beatles?
How was Punk Rock a reaction both to the commercialization of Rock and Roll and to the social climate in late 1970s Britain?
What did Punk Rock provide that opened the door for New Wave acts? And what are some among the defining attributes of New Wave?
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?
What were the factors that contributed to the rise of Beatlemania?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
How has “the beat” been an object of both celebration and concern in the history of popular music?
How were Bo Diddley’s recordings an anomaly in relation to 1950s Pop music, and how is his rhythm-driven sound and self-presentation a precursor to Hip Hop style?
How did wartime restrictions and other factors cause popular music ensembles to shrink in size during the 1940s, helping to set the stage for the small “combos” of Rock and Roll?
How does the song “Blowin’ in the Wind” use poetic devices to communicate an open-ended yet powerful message about the human condition, without ever losing its historical specificity?
How did The Beatles' rigorous work schedule during the years 1960-63 build their strengths as performers, as musicians, and as a band?
What does Link Wray’s biography say about how Native Americans lived in the first half of the 20th century, and what role did Wray’s upbringing have on his music?
How did teen dance shows and the Twist influence American culture?
How did Ritchie Valens meld traditional Mexican music and Rock and Roll?