HOW USEFUL IS A PRODUCTION OF CULTURE PERSPECTIVE IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL?

A production of culture perspective is useful, but is missing important factors to explain why rock and roll was the music genre formed. The six factors show why a new genre of music was formed from changes in law, technology, industry structure, organization structure, occupational career, and market, but the specifics of these changes only explain why new music arose and not specifically why the new music was rock and roll. Another problem with this perspective is that it doesn’t explain why teenagers feel a connection to rock and roll. The perspective only explains that the generation from the post war baby boom wasn’t old enough to create a teenage demand for new and different music instead of why the teenagers were drawn to rock and roll. Because this is only one perspective, multiple views are necessary to develop a more complete understanding of the birth of rock and roll.