Country Music During The 1950's

During the 1950’s it was said that a young communist named Fidel Castro threated the revolutionary contagion in the hemi-sphere, he did not want any help while studying the way of Latin America. Which immediately set a spark that would dis-tant himself between the United States (Ford 1). But it seemed that Castro was looking more at Latin America’s revolutions since the Bogotaza riots of 1948-54. His example of the way of the Latin Americans began to leave remains strong. It was said that Fidel Castro went to a meeting in the Revolutionary time to cause trouble in 1959 (Skelly 1). After taking over Cuba, Castro immediately moved himself and other people who were on his side to communize the island’s nation and to turn Cuba in-to a base to

Country music to-day is more and likely described on played on country radio stations and videos shown on television. People would sing about the country, their emotions, and about heartbreaks. When they would sing they would play guitars, banjos, fiddles, and pedal steel guitars; they got creative in the way they played and performed (Kallen 6). A man named Jimmie Rodgers was said to be the man who started country music (Kallen 19). Modern Country was said to come from the southern Appalachian Moun-tains, where settlers settled in the area of the American country side in parts of the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virgin-ia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in the mid 1700’s (Kallen 7). Folk music soon swept the country and became a remarkable phenomena of the 20th century. Which ended up making a whole new culture and today in New York the legacy continues (How Folk 11). Folk music culture in the 1950’s soon expanded (How Folk 2). To where the music not only let the people know about the way of their heritage, but later knocked down walls they never knew existed about the background about their family and culture (How Folk

Throughout the decade women’s fashion was mainly based on Christian Dior’s what so called the New Look during the 1940’s. Loose fitting styles came to be a thing in 1957 which came from designers Hubert de Givenchy, Cristobal Balenciaya and Yves Saint Laruen (Baker 21). The fashion industry began to move slowly from the runways of New York, Paris, London, and Rome and soon made boutiques into better stores (Baker 24). The clothing industry seemed to pay more attention to the major fashion shows that were popular (Baker 25). The new man made fabrics was the development of sportswear, which in fash-ion seemed to be pretty important. They started to come in different patterns, and designs just as strapless, one piece, and halter top swimsuits (Baker