Definition that contains 1950s
- rock a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- beats a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
- boomer a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
- orbison United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988)
- rastafari (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
- rockabilly a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
- rastas (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
- trad traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
- skiffle a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
- beatniks a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)