The immense recognition of rock and roll affected an exceptional level of social, political and cultural impact on Australian life in the post war period. Not just a musical style, rock and roll influenced lifestyles, fashion trends, dance moves, attitudes, haircuts, forms of language and political views. The influence of rock n roll, in the post war period of the 50s and 60s was indeed one of great significance to Americanised culture. Australia was also influenced by this seeing as Australia had grown to be close allies with America and it had inhabited American culture into aspects of its own. The origins of Rock N Roll are linked to the mixture of African American musical forms, such as blues, jazz and gospel, with traditional rural white musical forms, such as country music and western swing.
In Australia the social impact that Rock n Roll had, was an obvious change in fashion and hair styles. The tough, leather ensemble image of early rockers such as the Rolling Stones......
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