FLYING SAUCER ROCK AND ROLL
The Australian press confronts early rock and roll
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v4i3.28719Keywords:
rock and roll, music journalism, moral panicsAbstract
This article provides an overview and distillation of trends and themes evident in press writings of the 1950s which dealt contemporaneously with the emergence of rock and roll music in Australia. About fifty explicit references are given, selected from a much larger sampling of tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, magazines, 'serious' journals and paperback non-fiction of the period.
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unattributed (1956c) 'In the Groove', The Bulletin 3/10
unattributed (1956d) 'Commercial Records', Tempo, January
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unattributed (1956f) 'Commercial Records', Tempo, August
unattributed ( 1956h) 'Record Reviews', Music Maker, August
unattributed ( 1956i) 'The hoodlums are at it again!', Music Maker, January
unattributed ( 1956j) 'American girls are going wild over new singer Elvis Presley', Music Maker, April
unattributed ( 1956k) 'Elvis Presley will make just a bare million dollars this year', Music Maker, December
unattributed ( 1957a) 'Pandemonium over strip singer', Sydney Morning Herald 5110
unattributed (1957b) 'Stadium really rocked', Truth 13110
unattributed ( 1957c) (untitled) Newcastle Herald 3110
unattributed ( 1957d) (untitled) Tempo and Television, January
unattributed ( 1957e) 'Popular Records- Rock 'n 'roll', Tempo and Television, February
unattributed ( 1957f) 'Popular Records- Rock 'n 'roll', Tempo and Television, March
unattributed ( 1957g) 'Bill Haley's Comets take Great Britain by storm', Music Maker, March
unattributed ( 1957h) '-But Calypso's the coming beat', Music Maker, March
unattributed ( 1957i) 'Meet Pat Boone, a singer with high principles', Music Maker, March
unattributed (1959) 'Rock paves the way for America's traditional music, says Lomax', Music Maker, May
