Pop Passes Fifty

Pop music has come a long way since its birth in the 1950s. Although many changes have taken place on the pop scene, this type of music remains a powerful force on the youth culture which consumes it. Pop is a genre that has clearly defined periods that also reflect the mood of the young people in this country; clearly the more society’s elders decry it as the root of all evil, the more pop music is cherished by our young people.

Pop music can be traced back to 1954, when Elvis Presley recorded “That’s All Right Mamma”--the first rock-n-roll song made by a white artist. The succeeding years were known the Golden decade of rock-n-roll and culminated in the Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 and the beginning of Beatlemania. During the mid 50 View the rest of this article