Author: Mário Sérgio Lorenzetto | 03/04/2025 07:10
“One, two, three” clock, four “rock” … Exactly 70 years ago, the phenomenon of rock and roll exploded. The film “Blackboard Jungle” premiered and shocked. Despite the fact that at the beginning it was what it showed, it strongly influenced the new social force: teenagers. Teens. The youth began to show that they did not disappear again. Of the 1950, he practiced vandalism, violence, sex.
The first conflict between generations.
Blackboard Jungle offered a kind view of this conflict: young people and adults could understand. Young people identified with their counterparts in the film and broke with the jazz and country of their parents. It was about rejecting the culture of his parents and complaining about his own song.
Music, repeated three times, was a hymn of youth.
Rock around the clock, Bill Harley and his comet sounds overwhelming and repeats three times in the film. This song has existed for some time, but was limited to a small black market. Haley came from the country and decided to try new black music. Listening to her in the film was a bit of a battle claim. It was a “youth hymn”. In several countries, the reaction was visceral: they danced at the cinema and came to the cash register. The call of everything was: “Hey, we exist and want to relieve ourselves.” Haley spent the rest of her life, playing and rewriting rock around the clock. He died at the age of 55, an alcoholic and crazy.
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