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17 cze 2010 · During the 1950s, the United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods ...
The music of the day, especially rock and roll, reflected their desire to rebel against adult authority. Other forms of 1950s popular culture, such as movies and television, sought to entertain, while reinforcing values such as religious faith, patriotism, and conformity to societal norms.
The 1950s was an era of great upheaval in the United States. By the millions, Americans who had just survived two decades of economic depression and war left the cities for the greenery and open spaces of the suburbs. Suburban towns sprang up like crabgrass across the country.
Postwar prosperity and Keynesian economic policies helped create a large white middle class with predictably bourgeois cultural values. This generated a great deal of alarm about conformity and mass society. But the same conditions also created a space for more experimental and diverse cultural forms and even nascent wells of protest.
American Culture in the 1950s refers to the social norms, values, and artistic expressions that characterized the United States during this transformative decade.
This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; mus...
24 wrz 2024 · Even though the United States escaped World War II with little physical damage, the war shaped the development of American life, society, and culture in numerous ways in the decades that followed. The 1950s is often remembered in an idyllic and nostalgic way.
