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: Dear forum-members! : I’m writing an graduation-essay at the university of Trier, Germany. It is about “Elvis, Rock’n’Roll and Segregation in the USA”. I have some notions, and I would like to hear your opinion, please. Thank you very much for your answer! : 1. Rock’n’Roll-music loosened the racial barriers in an important part of american society. : 2. it did because R’n’R-music connected the black identity with positive items. : 3. the important part of american society was the music-business, because it reached millions of people and affected them. : 4. the establishment fought against r’n’r-music because it threatened their values and morals – and that means their power. The establishment were the middle-cl and political elites on a regional or local basis. : 5. R’n’R music threatened their power because it provided space to discuss the issue of race-relations in american society, especially the South, and so it was able to question the status quo of race relations in general. (that’s what the etsablishment was scared of.) : 6. So R’n’R-music became political in a pive sense, as itself wasn’t political at all but political issues were put upon it. Even the issues of youth delinquency and obscenity were atrributes connected to the Negroes. : 7. but as the r’n’r-artists never formulated a political change, r’n’r didn’t result in a special social movement that protested against segregation. : 8. so, finally, r’n’roll’s influence of the civil rights movement can not be measured in a statistic sense, but it’s influence was certainly there. Today, music is an important part of culture-politics (“rock against racism” etc.). : Thank you for your help and ideas! : Please replay to “ hola1005@compuserve.de “ : MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

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