What have been some major social and cultural features of the 1950s? (1 Viewer)

[acevipa]

What have been some major social and cultural features of the 1950s?

 

[jazzbaby]

Technology

• First half of the fifties , entertainment was dominated by radio and cinema
• By the end of the decade , TV was the most dominant form of entertainment

Music
· Rock and roll
· Popular Australian radio show dominated by American music
· Rock n roll music from US helped to develop a different culture in Australia.
· Teenagers started to challenge the conservative lifestyle
· Social developments saw a drop in church attendance


Home appliances
· Inventions – refrigerators and transistor radio
· Luxuries in previous decade became necessities , washing machines , dryers, sewing machines etc
· Home appliances helped promote a feeling of national affluence of prosperity.

Fashion
· As American films and music came to Australia, so did the desire to copy the American way of life
· Men started wearing clothes like James Dean
· Hair is greased and sideburns popular
· Women copied Sandra Dee and Marilyn Monroe.

• Sport 1956- Melbourne Olympics

• Social and cultural features
• Introduction of television in 1956 saw Australia become well acquainted with the American culture.
• 75 % of movies coming into Australia were American

• The US had the technology to produce much more and could swamp the market
• As satellite technology progressed it was easier for the US to export its cultural products

I hope that was of some help

those were basically all my notes for Australias social and cultural history since 1945



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