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Episode: The Precursors
Description: Welcome to Rock N Roll Archaeology! This is a reboot of Episode One: The Precursors, originally released October 15, 2015.
We updated and improved it some, and re-released it.
Show Notes and Playlist Here
We begin in Times Square, late summer of 1945. The war is over.
First up, the Baby Boom and a newly-discovered demographic, the white American teenager.
This new cohort is huge, with unprecedented economic clout. Young, restless and affluent, and they want to get beyond the timid, conformist popular culture of 1950s America.
“Race Reco...