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I've often pondered this question myself. Here are a couple of things I think would be different:

1) Racial segregation in America wouldn't have ended, at least not at the time that it did. Rock n' roll broke a lot of the racial barriers of 50's America by exposing a young white audience to black music. A big part of the reason segregation ended when it did was because the Baby Boom Generation took up civil rights as a social issue, and part of that was the exposure rock n' roll gave them to black culture and black political struggles.

2) The sexual revolution probably wouldn't have happened the way it did either. Rock n' roll is notorious for two things: It's rebellious spirit and it's celebration of youth culture. It definitely took a lot of rebellious spirit for post-war young people to cast off the sexual morality of their parents. Likewise, these young people weren't eager to repeat their parents' lifestyle of marriage-family-career, they were eager to stay young, so they embraced birth control which forestalled parenthood.
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3) The music industry would be a lot smaller. The reason we have huge record companies is because they got rich off of rock n' roll. Elvis taught them a valuable lesson: Teenagers buy more records than adults, so you make more money if you market records to them. Ponder that the next time you see some lame teen-pop singer on TV.

I'm sure there's more, but basically, we would live in a very different society.

2006-12-06 23:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Rock 2 · 6 0

i imagine you're questioning too narrowly. because music is an paintings, it has slowly "developed" over the years. i ought to say Chuck Berry and Elvis both, yet basically because they did no longer have distortion would not advise that's not rock. The Rock way of life has continually been human beings coming up relaxing music that were given your heart price up, and went adverse to prevalent (many times rebelling adverse to their mom and father' tastes) opinion. So, distortion got here in finally because it replaced right into a valid that not one of the older human beings loved. :P electric powered guitar did exist in the previous distortion... opposite to naive beliefs... XD besides, you've were given an outstanding graps of the problem, you've basically gotta recognize it really is a approach of adjusting from one type to a distinct. they did no longer have a music convention and write an outstanding purchase of regulations and basically invent a sparkling type :) Peace out guy :P wish this helped :)

2016-10-16 12:11:42 · answer #2 · answered by pataki 4 · 0 0

A much less interesting one! But there was no way rock 'n roll would not have been invented! It was as inevitable as every other form of music. Music is the voice of its generation.

2006-12-06 23:14:25 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 1 0

the quiet life

we knew that it would divide the world

it give children the controls that would turn into to days adults making a reality of children acting out mockery of adult life in way that give them the room to create livable fallacies and fantasies earlier in life but Truth of the matter turned out to be that unless the lock-step-methodologies change the power that be all who venture off leave the door open to the hassles that are built into the system, i don't want to get off on a rant, cause there is entrapment's to involvements for just stupid stuff and Ron White says you can't fix stupid, i love music

2006-12-06 22:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by bev 5 · 0 0

We would still be listing to Doris Day and Dean Martin music....When The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Pizza Pie....la la .Good stuff huh?

2006-12-06 22:29:39 · answer #5 · answered by Pat C 7 · 0 0

We'd be living in a world that was pointless, futile and lacking in rhythm...We'd all be listening to big bands and waltzing or something....Long live Rock n Roll!

2006-12-06 22:25:02 · answer #6 · answered by Karma Chimera 4 · 0 0

Mediocre and utterly dull without the hard rock and the soft roll !!

2006-12-06 22:29:03 · answer #7 · answered by small 7 · 0 0

Ah yes, boring. Rock and roll has been a wonderful soundtrack for our lives, huh?

2006-12-06 22:17:59 · answer #8 · answered by Batty 6 · 1 0

Rock and roll wasn't invented, it has always been with us. it just constantly evolves. YOU CANT STOP ROCK AND ROLL. ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-12-06 22:22:12 · answer #9 · answered by morbiusdog 2 · 0 0

A quieter one

2006-12-09 01:43:18 · answer #10 · answered by steve w 2 · 0 0

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