What was the social significance of rock and roll in the 1950?

Answer 1

rock and roll affected the economy by brining the money from the young hoolagens who spent it on rock concerts into circulation instead of saving their money for thing such as cars and houses. this brought in the second depression.

Answer 2

This all depends on the type of family it was.

If it was a Christian, close family, the parents might not have wanted the kids to listen to rock and roll.

Some people believed that listening to rock and roll increased the rates of people doing drugs and having sex.

Some families didn't care if there kids liked rock, and nothing negative ever happened to the kids.

The influence of Rock n Roll on family life in the 1950's was very different in the US and the UK.

In the US - especially in the South - Rock n Roll was seen as a Black music (which it very nearly was). White families who were racially prejudiced (especially Christian ones) had a fundamental objection to their children listening to Black music, and there were many racially-motivated campaigns to prevent radio stations from playing the music. (The film the Buddy Holly story has some essentially accurate reflections on ingrained racism in the Texas music scene of the time).

In the first instance Rock n Roll led to major generation conflict in traditional families (though in the longer term it probably helped soften the new generation's antipathy to Black culture).

In the UK the race problem was different (most Black British were from former colonies - particularly in the Caribbean) and Rock n Roll was more a generational than a race thing. In the UK the frictions caused by Rock n Roll usually varied on a family to family basis.

Some parents didn't like "jungle music," which made the kids like it even more. Baby Boom "culture" is, basically, rock 'n roll. And just look what happened! These days Rock is so simultaneously Establishment and "Hep" that the poor Generation Z kids are afraid to rebel against it!