I Was So Much Older Then Folk Revival into Rock ’n’ Roll

• Published in: Right to the Juke Joint p. 116
• Main Author: Mullen, Patrick B
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Illinois Press 04.05.2018
• Subjects: African Americans; American minorities; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Artists; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Country music; Cultural anthropology; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Ethnic groups; Ethnology; Folk art; Folk culture; Folk music; Folk revivals; Folkloristics; Folksongs; Labor economics; Music; Music genres; Musicians; Occupations; Performing arts; Political activism; Political processes; Political protests; Political science; Politics; Popular music; Popular songs; Protest songs; Rock music; Singers

The emergence of the folk music revival and the invention of rock ’n’ roll overlapped in the late forties and early fifties, and both had elements of revival because of the need for a new identity among American teenagers rebelling against everything their parents’ generation stood for. Identifying...