Law, technology, industry structure, organisation structure, occupational career and the market are 6 of the factors that Peterson considers in his culture perspective theory on the birth of rock and roll. There is no denying that all factors have contributed to rock n roll’s beginnings, for example without the change in in the 1914 ASCAP law and the FCC approving backlogs of radio stations in 1947 people wouldn’t have been introduced to alternative music.
However Peterson doesn’t acknowledge what you would think would be a huge factor- the music itself. Peterson doesn’t explain why it is rock ‘n’ roll and no other genre of music that had such a huge breakthrough in 1955. He fails to acknowledge the technologies that created the rock ‘n’ roll sound, the huge amount of teenager’s searching for a something to relate to and the demand for a new exciting genre that could have only been rock ‘n’ roll.
A decent summary that pinpoints many of the strengths and weaknesses of Peterson's ideas.
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