Was Rock and Roll Responsible for Dismantling America's Traditional Family, Sexual, and Racial Customs in the 1950s and 1960s?

Since the emergence of Rock and Roll in 1950s parents of each decade have asked one another if that were the reason why the family values are not the same anymore. Rock and Roll had gained extreme popularity, and it shot into the sky like a rocket with the teenage culture in the 1950s and 1960s. Professor Jody Pennington, the Associate Professor at University of Aarhus believes that Rock and Roll was responsible for the corruption of the traditional American family values. With his PhD, American Studies from 1988-1994 and also being the Associate professor in Media and Culture Studies at Aarhus University argues in the essays how Rock and Roll did what he claims it done. On the other side of this argument was, J. Ronald Oakley, a writer who is the author of the book "God's Country: America in the fifties". Oakley takes a similar approach but still his views differ and pretty much state that he don't agree with Professor Jody Pennington.

First essayist to argue on this topic is Professor Jody Pennington. His argument in his writing of, "Don't Knock the Rock: Race, Business, and Society in the Rise of Rock and Roll", published by Dale Carter in 1992, is that Rock and Roll music and also the new forms of consumerism corrupted the American families values in the 1950s and 1960s. Professor Pennington believes that the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s along with the new forms of consumerism expressed "the inner conflict between conservative and rebellious forces for high school teenagers who wanted to rebel against their parents yet still grow to be them." He believes that with the emergence of Rock and Roll teenagers were not doing and following what was the norm. One could say that it liberated the teens and they broke away from the same o same traditional views that were acceptable at that time period. Pennington in his essays he says in the beginning that teenagers were dead beat on the same old croon and woon ballads because since post world war the teens wanted something or someone to express or just give the bare minimum of address their feelings.