Examines the impact that rock and roll music, movies and the invention of television had on America in the 1950s.

General overview of African American pop-culture in the mid 20th-century highlighting music, art, theater, and sports.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Clyde McPhatter, an American rhythm-and-blues singer popular in the 1950s whose emotional style anticipated soul music.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a film guide for the film West Side Story (1961), the musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which is set in 1950s New York and incorporates themes around street crime,...