Those Crazy Cats: “Juvies” and 1950s Youth Culture
by admin - February 10th, 2012
Links for today’s class:
One man’s nostalgia for his teenage years in the ’50s (with the soundtrack to match)
The first Rock’n’Roll DJ, Alan Freed (aka The Moondog) on radio
Buddy Holly and the Crickets, on the Arthur Murray Dance Party, 1957
Doing “The Stroll” on Seventeen, a local Idaho American Bandstand-type program, 1958
Which looks pretty tame next to these rockabilly lindy-hoppers from the same era
Trailer, “Rebel Without a Cause” (1954)
Trailer, “Teenage Doll,” also 1957 about the girl gang of the “Vandalettes”
1954 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency, April 1954
The Committee’s 1955 Interim Report: “Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency”
