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

2 Conformity in the 1950s Nuclear Families Baby Boom Dr. Benjamin Spock
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 Youth Rebellion
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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