Chapter 32: Through The Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945–1960
Chapter Outline
- Postwar economy
- Growth and prosperity
- Military spending
- International trade dominance
- Technological innovation
- Consumer demand
- GI Bill of Rights
- Enacted in 1944
- Impact on eduction
- “Baby boom”
- Consumer culture
- Home ownership
- Television
- Limited involvement for blacks
- Marketing, packaging, and credit cards
- Youth market
- Growth of suburbs
- Rural-to-urban migration
- Levittowns
- Automobiles and roads
- Great black migration
- Southern sources
- Urban North and Midwest
- Social effects
- Postwar conformity
- Corporate life
- Large corporations
- Conformity
- Women and cult of domesticity
- Search for community
- Mobile population
- Joining organizations
- Church growth
- Religious revival
- Reassurance
- Challenges to complacency
- Growing anxiety
- Intellectual critics
- John Kenneth Galbraith’s Affluent Society
- John Keats’s Crack in the Picture Window
- David Riesman and The Lonely Crowd
- Youth Culture
- “Silent generation”
- Juvenile delinquency
- Rock and roll
- Origins
- Bridge between black and white music
- Elvis Presley
- Vehicle for youth revolt
- Controversy
- Alienation in the arts
- Drama
- Oppressiveness of mass culture
- Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
- Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee
- The novel
- The individual’s struggle for survival
- Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, et al.
- Painting
- Edward Hopper and desolate loneliness
- Abstract expressionism
- Violent and chaotic modern society
- Jackson Pollock
- William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, et al.
- The Beats
- Liberation of self-expression
- Greenwich Village background
- Howl by Allen Ginsberg
- Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
- Influences
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