1950s and Teens
Role models for teens in the 1950s, name 3
Who are: Elvis, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Chuck Barry, Jerry Lee Lewis, or Little Richard?
All four members of the band
Who are John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney?
The broader social phenomenon that adolescent cultural power and communal identity of youth The Beatles established
What is Beatlemania?
The three main views of violent TV protagonists
What are: agents, independents, and surrogates?
The television show that depicted African American economic success
What is The Jeffersons?
The event that impacted the parents of teens in the 1950s but the teens had no memory of
What is the Great Depression?
The two aspects of The Beatles that represented a departure from conventional male rock performers
What were their sound and appearance?
The postwar factor that saw an increasing youth influence during the 1960s
What was the Baby Boom?
The idea that "the establishment" is going to maintain its control by using violent television
What is status quo?
The socioeconomic realities depicted in the show Good Times
What is urban poverty and gun violence?
One of three things that led to social change in the 1950s
What are: economic conditions, technology, and shifting generational experiences.
The ways The Beatles were different than their peers (Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis) at the time
What is they were non-threatening and less aggressive?
3 key aspects of the importance of The Beatles being from Liverpool
What are: port city, Marshall Plan, rock and roll came through Liverpool, clothing/style brought in, middle class city and values?
The reason why television shifted away from Westerns in the mid-late 1960s
What is police/spy shows were better to socialize people?
TV show that challenged traditional American gender roles
What is the Mary Tyler Moore Show?
The most impactful television personality of the era
Who was Ed Sullivan?
The reason (according to the article) why girls/women of the 1960s were screaming and acting "out of character" during Beatles performances
What is to protest sexual repressiveness and the rigid double standard of the time?
The factor that most directly contributed to the Beatles becoming symbols of cultural transformation
What is their ability to reflect and shape youth sentiments through music?
One of only 2 independent agent tv shows for African American actors
What are Shaft and Outcasts?
The controversial social issue depicted in the clip from All in The Family
What is political polarization?
Two aspects that allowed teenagers to form a new consumer class
What are: economic prosperity and affordable technology?
What American parents and conservative politicians accused The Beatles of in the 1960s
What is being Communist?
One of the 3 main embryonic attributes of the Counterculture Movement
What are: maturing sensibility of rock music, greater personal freedom expressed by appearance, and experimentation with drugs
The primary way television violence functions as an instrument of social control
What is depicting protagonists as defenders of the status quo?
TV show that used sophisticated humor and business ownership to challenge racial stereotypes
What is Sanford and Son?