"Don't I buy you everything you want?" asks his dad. And what else is a father supposed to do? .
Rock and Roll was an outlet, a symbol of the change. Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. The same year Rebel without a Cause came out, Rosa Parks was dragged from the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and three black students were let into UC Chapel Hill, by the rulings of a federal court judge, by nineteen fifty six, the pop song "My Prayer" sung by the black band the Platters hits number one on the charts. And there was suburbia. Lots of kids with nothing to do. Before they play "chicken" and one of them dies, off the cliff, Jim asks "why do we do this?" and the other kid replies, "you gotta do something, doncha?" The spread of juvenile delinquency was actually not any higher than normal, according to the stats, but it was televised, talked about, turned into a growing fear, and linked with Rock and Roll. And though the parents deplored the sexual innuendo and thick rhythm of the R&B beats, that pelvis, these kids dancing like what? the first lesbian/gay magazine was published in California in 1953, called the Mattachine Society, the same year Playboy released its first centerfold, Marilyn Monroe, stark naked against a red background. Sexologists told women that to enjoy sex they had to fully fit and enjoy the position of mother, sex was being talked about, read about, written about. Underneath the docile attire, behind the fast cars, under the dancing, the seeds of the civil rights movement, of the sexual revolution, of the strong woman, were just being planted. And in fear of that, people had to keep to the tradition, because amid change everyone clings to what they know, what it should look like, how we should act. .
Rock and Roll, an outlet, also stirred the teen population into a united force. American bandstand popularized what was "hip.