Rock and Roll
Rock and roll, born in the 1950s, swept cities around the world with unprecedented energy and speed. Teen women wore the voluminous skirts that the “new look” had made fashionable in the late 1940s, and young men sported hairdos like that of Elvis Presley. East and west, teens thronged and even rioted to attend rock concerts and would continue to do so despite public criticism and even police action against the movement. (ullstein bild / The Granger Collection, NYC—All rights reserved.)