In the 1950’s, teenage rebellion was influenced by popular culture, with the medium of music providing a new outlet for people to question and explore new ideas, which impacted on the creation of Australia’s modern identity. Popular culture is the entirety of perspective, images, attitudes and other phenomena that is mainstream in a given culture. It was a term used in the 1950’s to categorise the social habits of ordinary people of the lower class to the high cultural pursuits of the privileged educated class. Youth culture was slowly changing, the earlier generations had stricter social conformity due to the experience of two wars and the depression, removing any teenage experiences. These attitudes changed in the 1950’s as prosperity and mobility increased and teenagers had the ability to define their own identity and develop a new freedom. This new found independence often contributed to conflicts between parents and teenagers. In the 1950s, new genres of music were changing and teenagers were changing with it. In the 1990’s, with the introduction of new genres, particularly grunge and punk rock teenage rebellion was re-established creating a new music era heavily impacting the modern Australian identity. Dissimilarly, in modern day music there has been a decline in the punk rock and grunge genre, thus leading to a decrease in teenage rebellion and an increase in explicit references in music.
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