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Greaser (subculture) North American greaser of Quebec, Canada, c. 1960. Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the United States and Canada. The subculture remained prominent into the mid-1960s and was particularly embraced by ...
Beat, Beat, Beat (1959) by William F. Brown. Beatniks were members of a social movement in the mid-20th century, who subscribed to an anti- materialistic lifestyle. They rejected the conformity and consumerism of mainstream American culture and expressed themselves through various forms of art, such as literature, poetry, music, and painting.
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term girl group is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop and which flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and start of the British ...
Dirty blues (also known as bawdy blues) is a form of blues music that deals with socially taboo and obscene subjects, often referring to sexual acts and drug use. Because of the sometimes graphic subject matter, such music was often banned from radio and available only on jukeboxes. The style was most popular in the years before World War II ...
G. Ganguro. Girly girl. Glossary of slang used in reviewing silent movie melodrama. Gold digger. Gun moll. Gyaru.
Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) [ 1] was a Northern Irish singer. One of the most popular singers in the British Isles in the 1950s, [ 2] she scored ten hits in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1959. She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five hits in the Top Twenty in a single week.
Bobby soxers were a subculture of young women in the mid-to-late 1940s. Their interests included popular music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra, and wearing loose-fitting clothing, notably bobby socks. [ 1][ 2] Their manner of dress, which diverged sharply from earlier ideals of feminine beauty, was controversial. [ 3][ 4] As a ...
Mod (subculture) Two mid-1960s mods on a customised Lambretta scooter. Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in 1950s London and spread throughout Great Britain, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries. [ 1] It continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots ...