1. How much influence do these people have?

2. Or these brands?

3. What is Popular Culture? • An aspect of culture that includes everything that is popular. • A “subculture”

4. Culturevs. Popular Culture Culture Popular Culture Attending a Movie Popular Movies

5. Chuck Berry: “Sweet Little Sixteen” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV4NGpoy_E

6. Beach Boys- “Surfin’ USA”

7. Influence on Beatles • “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry’”- John Lennon. • Chuck Berry songs covered by Beatles: • “Rock and Roll Music” • “Roll Over Beethoven” • “Too Much Monkey Business” • “Carol” • “Johnny B. Goode” • “Sweet Little Sixteen” • …and more

8. 1950’s Popular Culture

9. Music: “Hound Dog” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tILEQ5dDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnmIVBSZYM

10. Film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amyo9HNLSgI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXRgAXU1-T4

11. TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULK_PNaS6d0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lktF0V_4Xgw

12. “Amos ‘N’ Andy” Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll

13. Blackface

14. Black Minstrel Shows “We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-- …We sing, but oh, the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask.- Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”

16. Cars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-m3FEm5VA

17. Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)