Rock and Roll History ????

Question

During the 1950's, parents did not want their children to listen to R&B and rock n roll b/c ------------------. Can somebody explain to me why?? And how did peoples attitude toward this music change with time??
Thanks.

Answer 1

They felt it corrupted their morals
By the 60's with the British invasion, The Beatles appealed to basically alll age groups, as they were marketed as clean-cut cheecky lads, this loosened the perceptions

Answer 2

My parents (I grew up in the 1950's and 60's) didn't like it because it was sexier than the music they were used to. They thought it was crude and dirty. They thought it was noisy rather than musical. Same attitudes a lot of my generation had about rap. They never changed their attitudes and most of the WW2 generation never really liked rock. The only thing that changed was that the 50's generation got older and became the ruling taste-makers. Now it's people in their 20's choosing what's popular and what isn't.

Answer 3

it was "the devil's music". During the 1950s (and even for some people today) the more conservative religious types thought this music had an evil influence on the young, they claimed "the beats used in R&R were the same beats that were used in African fertlity rituals." In time it did change, my grandmother could listen to the Beatles, my mother bought Elvis, Beatles, and CCR records. Today I think Elvis and the Beatles are quaint (CCR was a good rock band), and in no way do I think their music was "evil", and the music I listen to (Sex Pistols, Minor Threat) far surpasses the original R&R in its intensity and rebellious nature.

Answer 4

James Brown and Little Richard and Chuck Barry were interviewed about this very thing. They said that the people did not want their kids corrupted by that N***** music. That is their words, not mine. It changed when people saw that it was fun and timely. Not only that but there were a lot of Whites singing it too: Elvis, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, J.P. Richardson, Waylon Jennings.

Answer 5

Well, it was loud, sexy, provocative, and new-- the asme reasons our parents didn't like our music. Each young generation has its own styles, fads, and tunes. And they choose them BECAUSE it separates them from their parents. IN the 20's, teens listened to jazz and their parents hated it. IN the 30's and 40's kids listened to big band, swing and crooners like SInatra, and THEIR parents hated it. In the 1820's, kids were playing music that their parents didn't like, and in the 1890's.... It goes on pretty much from the beginning of the Rennaissance thru today.

Answer 6

Well, not my parents! They loved it....my mom taught me how to jitterbug; I taught her how to boogie and later do the twist, monkey and the rest.

The only early R&R she wasn't crazy about was Jerry Lee Lewis....for some reason she couldn't get into his music.

Answer 7

Parents though it was a bad influence on their children and sonme still do.