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Essential Question: How did popular culture and family change during the 1950s?

Cold War Pop Culture. Essential Question: How did popular culture and family change during the 1950s?. Lecture 4. Conformity in the 1950s. Nuclear Families Traditional Baby Boom (1946 – 1964) 30 million babies born Dr. Benjamin Spock The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1945.

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Essential Question: How did popular culture and family change during the 1950s?

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  1. Cold War Pop Culture • Essential Question: How did popular culture and family change during the 1950s? Lecture 4

  2. Conformity in the 1950s • Nuclear Families • Traditional • Baby Boom • (1946 – 1964) • 30 million babies born • Dr. Benjamin Spock • The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1945

  3. Fast Cars and Freedom • Automobile • car became status symbol • drive-thru restaurants/movies • garage

  4. Pop Culture Project • Cold War culture • movies, TV, and literature reflected the Cold War • Invasion of the Body Snatchers • Dr. Strangelove • Fail-Safe • “The Crucible” • Rebel without a Cause • combination of patriotism, fear, hope, and prosperity

  5. Rock On • Rock and Roll • rock and roll “borrowed” from Black America • race music • parents worried the music would incite immorality

  6. The First Emo • Beat Movement • embraced non-conformity and non-materialism • poets, authors, and musicians • criticized of being un-patriotic • precursors to counter-culture of 1960s • Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg • Youth Rebellion • James Dean • represented teen angst and rebellion • Rebel without a Cause • Elvis Presley • became the first rock and roll superstar • Marilyn Monroe • sexual icon of the 1950s

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