the generation gapIn the 1950's there was a HUGE generation gap, that parents disliked. For once, the generation's were forming separately away from each other, parents with parents and teens with other teens. This generation gap was caused due to the evolution of music that every teen loved to jam out to at local diners by popping 1 quarter into the jukebox. Rock n' Roll was like a sound that nobody ever heard, compared to the soft classical music and Jazz everyone was used to. One smoove cat that everyone loved was Elvis Presley, teenagers couldn't believe the way he dressed and couldn't get enough of the way he gyrated and thrust his hips. This caused parents to become angry and to believe that their children would soon become juvenille delinquents. Parents can't keep teenagers down, so they become very outspoken and defy their parents just so they can feel good and fit in with their inc-crowd. Whites and Blacks came together to like this band of music, whites who liked this music were called "cats". Some whites couldn't get enough of the cool cats and were always eager for more, then came the crazy dances, one for example was the doo-oop. A "generation gap" was formed as teen dress, beliefs, pastimes, social morals, and speech patterns differed from their parent's generation. The importance of this event changed the way families in America lived and acted with one another. It showed parents that they would have to further punish or discipline the outgrown generations.
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