Why Did the Teenagers Rock ‘n’ Roll During the Pandemic of 1957? The TuneSmith Series M - The Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhD
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A striking contrast between 1957 and the present is that Americans today appear to have a much lower tolerance for risk than their grandparents and great grandparents. As one contemporary...
show moreThere were no lockdowns since the US working population did not have the option to work from home in 1957. In the absence of a telecommunications infrastructure more sophisticated than the telephone (and a quarter of U.S. households still did not have a landline in 1957), the choice was between working at one’s workplace or not working at all.
In 1957–even with a serious risk of infectious disease (and not just flu; there was also polio and much else), life was jovial. By contrast, to be young in 2020 was—for most American teenagers—rather hellish. Stuck indoors, struggling to concentrate on “distance-learning” with irritable parents working from home in the next room, young people experienced at best frustration and at worst mental illness.
Huey “Piano” Smith captured the celebration of the rock ‘n’ roll generation despite the pandemic.
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