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To better understand the significance of the events presented in this article, it is important to go back to historical cultural events. Culture is constantly evolving, which is what makes new generations so independent and exciting. For a century and a half teenagers have express their need for independence by discarding the music of their parents, and embracing a new, different, and often radical form of music.
In 1884 teenagers had become excited by the tuneful melodies and rhyming everyday lyrics of Stephen Foster. Parents were disturbed that their children would cast aside the classical music of the great European composers.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, African slaves in America, re-interpreted their native music, and invented a sound they called jass, a derivate for the popular Jasmine perfume used in the brothels of New Orleans. Parents of the Stephen Forster generation, were deeply concerned about the negative moral implication this new jass music would have on their children. Today, jass is commonly referred to as jazz.
Twenty years later a new generation of youngsters, became fascinated with a dance, made popular by the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Parents of the Jazz age were appalled by the sexually expressive dance The Charleston, which they feared would encourage their children to engage in pre-marital sex.
Twenty years later, in l940, Big Band Swing music suddenly became the rage of this new generation, as they went off to fight in World War II. Their parents could not understand how their children, could enjoy such cheerful musical, when surrounded by the uncertainty, violence and death of war.
Twenty years later in 1960, the Big Band/Swing music generation, became alarmed by the popularity of a young man named Elvis Pressley, and the hypnotic effect his hip movement, and sensual singing voice, had on their children. During this time, and adding to the distress of parents, four young, long haired men, from England, calling themselves the Beatles; arrived in America, causing well-mannered young girls to publically display, screaming behavior, as the Beatles, sang their newly written songs.
Some twenty years later, when the hypnotized, screaming youngsters of the Elvis Presley and Beatles era became adults, they feared for the safety of their children, alarmed at...