teenagers question?

Question

can anybody tell me about the teenagers of the fifties and sixties? their music, lifestyle and culture? links would be great

Answer 1

These two websites should give you a good bird's-eye view of the music and the culture of both decades. We were very repressed; very much "Leave it to Beaver," believe it or not, in the '50s. The '60s were another story.

Relax and enjoy this piece of history gone by.......

http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

Answer 2

I WAS a teenager in the 60s. I was born in 1950, graduated from 8th grade in 1965 and high school in 1969.

We had fun. The biggest fear we had was not getting into the college of our choice. I live in the Midwest, and in my little world, drugs were not an issue. I went to Catholic schools, dated boys who went to Catholic schools, and even went to Catholic college.

The biggest scandals then involved pregnancy. Girls would still go visit their aunts in other states in those days. There were only 2 girls while I was in high school, but they were not allowed to graduate with the class, although both did get diplomas. I was the yearbook editor my senior year, and I put the picture of the one girl in my class to get pregnant in the yearbook. I almost got expelled, and did get suspended for 3 days over it. My mother had to come to school, and I really got chewed out. I'd do it again, if I had the chance.

We took a core curriculum of English, Math, Science, Foreign Language and Latin, History and Religion. And the dreadded PE. I hated gym class because I was a lousy athlete. I don't like things coming at my face, like basketballs. Even then, the jocks would harass the geeks and the geeks would ridicule the jocks. Electives in the girls schools were drama, music and art. Most of the boys' schools had more options. I was very involved in drama, but not at my own school. The boys' schools put on big musicals and other shows, while my school did little baloney stuff, like unknown one-act plays. We also did summer theatre at the university, and community theatre all year. I can still diagram a sentence, but long division is out of the question.

Our music was a lot of Mo-Town and the English Invasion. We loved The Temptations, The Beatles, The Dave Clark 5, The Zombies, Petula Clark, Eric Burdon and the Animals. Think House of the Rising Sun. The American groups we liked were Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company, Chicago (CTA at that time, for Chicago Transit Authority), Iron Butterfly, Peter, Paul and Mary. We had Hootenannies at school, with everyone forming little groups to sing folk songs. My friend Rhonda and I sang Gone the Rainbow and They Call the Wind Mariah at our school's folk fest. We also did a program called Up With People. I blush to remember it. It was the height of cheese, very patriotic and innocent. I sang the lead in a song about the ride of Paul Revere.

Most of my friends didn't smoke or drink. We didn't get into trouble because being on stage was the most important thing to us, and you had to stay straight to be in the shows. Other kids I knew did some drinking, but that was about as heavy as it got. If anyone I knew or went to school with was doing any drugs, I didn't know about it.

We wore a lot of Carnaby Street clothes. Very short skirts and dresses, wild color combinations and mixed a lot of patterns. My girlfriends and I wore make up like Twiggy, with pale lips and eyeshadow, but lots of eyeliner and mascara. Pink watercolor eyeshadow and navy eyeliner and mascara were a very popular combination.

We watched Marlo Thomas in That Girl and dreamed of being actresses. We also watched Bonanza and Ed Sullivan. My favorite two shows were Bridget Loves Bernie and Love on a Rooftop. Both were about young couples from very different backgrounds during the first years of their marriages.

All of my friends were expected to attend college, and we did. We may not have graduated, but we did attend. The boys would have been heading to Viet Nam if they didn't go. Some of the boys were in the National Guard. My ex-husband was in the Air National Guard. The draft started in 1969, and my cousin's birthdate was the first number called. My ex-husband was in basic training when the numbers were pulled, and he probably woudn't have been drafted. There was a guy in his unit who went AWOL that day. His number was 360 out of 365.

I started college in September of 1969, and my days were full of classes that I didn't take very seriously, and war protests I did take seriously. I didn't know anyone who went to Viet Nam until they came back. A lot of them were very screwed up. They saw things they'd never expected, and did things they never thought they'd do. They came home to to be called babykillers. A lot of them are living on the streets today.

I don't know if any of this helps, and it may not be typical of what other teens experienced in those days. We planned to change the world back then. Today, I'm planning my retirement in 8 years. This is really long. See what happens when old people get started?

Answer 3

http://www.loti.com/teenagers_youth_in_the_fifties.htm


http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/info-family.htm


http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html


http://www.cherryville.com/history/teen_60s/index.htm


http://www.bbhq.com/bomrstat.htm


http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/teen-hair-styles.htm


http://www.cantonpl.org/specialc/sixties2.html


http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37901-the-200-greatest-songs-of-the-1960s


http://www.fiftiesweb.com/music.htm


http://www.fiftiesweb.com/57tunes.htm


http://www.loti.com/fifties_history/Teenage_Life_in_the_1950s.htm


http://findarticles.com/p/search?qt=Teenage+rebellion+fifties&tb=art&qf=free


http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s_glamour.htm


http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s/1950s_8_society_never_had_it_so_good.htm


http://www.loti.com/siteindex.html


http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/barbie/barb3.html


http://www.hoover.nara.gov/exhibits/sixties/1963/teenangels.html


http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html


http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/14_rock_n_roll.htm


http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html



hope these help :D