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Youth culture in the United States

  • Punk rockThe Kingsmen released "Louie, Louie" in 1963, a song that later became known as punk rock's defining ur-text. This garage band from Portland, Oregon, played…
  • Trap musicIn 1991, the word trap first appeared in hip-hop lyrics to describe a place where drugs were sold. By 1999, producers in Atlanta began crafting a sound that…
  • Rock and rollIn the late 1940s, a new sound began to take shape in the United States. It emerged from a blending of black musical genres like rhythm and blues with…
  • Saturday-morning cartoonIn the 1950s, animation production shifted from theatrical shorts to television blocks following the Paramount Decree. Jason Mittel argues that by the end of…
  • Scene (subculture)The year 2002 marked the first known use of the term scene queen, a label older hardcore musicians used to mock attractive women they believed joined the…