- How were both conformity and nonconformity expressed in the post war world?
Must have at least 3 vocabs
Billy Graham
Dr. Jonas Salk
I Love Lucy
conformity
beatniks
Jack Kerouac
rock and roll
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
Use it as a guide
- Conformity: Expressed as a white, suburban, middle class, and Christian set of values
- Suburbs were the focus of conformity
- Nuclear Family: Mom, dad, and two kids
- Perfect lawn out front of house
- Dad works and mom stays home to take care of kids, wears a suit
- Attend church in their “sunday best” clothing
- Conformity most expressed culture through television and music
- Sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver
- Jazz music and crooners like Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra
- Televangelism: Jimmy Graham
- Consumer culture
- Cars, clothes, “Keeping up with the Jones”, modern conveniences like washing machines
- Anti-Communism
- Family, freedom, consumerism, and religion would protect against communism
- Non-conformity: Anything that challenged the white middle class values
- Rock n’ Roll brought issues of race and class to the youth of the suburbs
- Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry
- Religious & conservative backlash against Rock n’ Roll based on what they see on television
- African-American culture and “race-mixing” was seen as dangerous by whtie society
- Conformity reinforced segregation
- Rock and Roll, dance clubs reinforced integration
- Younger suburban people were bored with conformity and suburban culture and challenged parents notion of ethnicity, sexuality, and consumerism
- Some television pushed back against conformity
- I Love Lucy, Milton Berle Show
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