1950s rock and roll greasers

                               1950s rock and roll greasers 

The teenager’s I am researching are the rock and roll era of the 1950s I will find out about the music, fashion, films they liked and watched the stars of this era places they went and I will look at images to get a idea of what a average 150s teenager was like. The word Teenager was created in the 1950's due to the tremendous population of those in this age category and because teenagers started gaining more independence and freedoms. Teenagers were able to buy more things like food, clothes and music because of an increase in spending money. Teenagers were also becoming more independent in the type of music they preferred to listen to, no more listening to what their parents liked, teens flocked to the new music of the decade, which was rock and roll.

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        Music- (rock and roll artists)

·         Adolph Rickenbacker (1886-1976) was a German-American guitar manufacturer who in 1931 founded the Electro String Instrument Corporation. His company was the first in the United States to produce solid-bodied electric guitars.

·         Elvis Presley (1935-1977) was a working-class southerner who rose to fame in the 1950s as a rock and roll superstar. A memorial outside his childhood home proclaims, "Presley's career as a singer and entertainer redefined popular music."

·         Sam Phillips (1923-2003) was a record producer and owner of Sun Records. He is credited with scouting some of the first and most legendary rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. In 1986, he became one of the first people inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

·         Bill Haley (1925-1981) was an early rock and roll musician who, with his group Bill Haley & the Comets, helped popularize the genre in the '50s with hits such as "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and "Rock Around the Clock," a song featured in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.

·         Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) was an African-American rock musician who blew apart the rock scene with his mind-blowing stage performances, haunting vocals, and innovative guitar compositions. 

Films-1950s rock and roll era...

·         Rocking the blues (1955)

·         Rock Rock Rock  (1956)

·         Rock around the clock (1956)

·         Don’t knock the rock (1956)

·         Love me tender (1956)

·         Shake rattle and rock (1956)

·         Carnival rock (1958)

Film stars of the 1950s-

·         Marilyn Monroe

·         Paul Newman

·         Joanne Woodward

·         Sal Mineo

·         James Dean

·         Eva Marie saint

·         Elli warlatch

·         John Travolta

·         Olivia newton john

·         Pier angelie

Fashion of the 1950s rock and roll teenagers-

During the decade, the types of parentally approved and appropriate dress for teen boys consisted of loose-fitting slacks, an ironed shirt and tie, a sports jacket, and polished black or brown loafers. Haircuts were short and neat. Clean-cut preppy boys donned tan chinos, a type of pants, that ended just below the ankles, V-neck sweaters, and white buck shoes or Top-Siders, deck shoes. Their female equivalents wore saddle shoes, bobby socks, blouses with pleated skirts, or dirndl dresses, which featured lots of petticoats, and came sleeveless or with puffed sleeves. Favored hairstyles included the ponytail and bouffant, hair that was teased and combed up to stand high on a woman's head.

 The 1950s greaser/Rocking roll teenagers-

Teenage boys wore tight-fitting blue jeans and white T-shirts: an outfit that represented the essence of rock 'n' roll rebellion. Or they adapted the "greaser" look favoring tight T-shirts and dungarees, a type of jean, along with black leather jackets. Their hair was grown long, greased with Vaseline, and combed on both sides to extend beyond the back of the head.

Their girlfriends expressed themselves by wearing felt poodle skirts, which often featured such images as record players and musical notes attached to their fronts, or they wore short, tight skirts, stockings, tight blouses and sweaters, and an over-abundance of eye shadow and lipstick. While a preppy couple who was "going steady," or seriously dating, exchanged class rings or identification bracelets, a greaser girl instead put on her boyfriend's leather jacket.