Editing Rock and roll (section)

=== Teen culture ===
{{Main|Youth subculture}}
[[File:True Life Romance 3.jpg|thumb|upright|"There's No Romance in Rock and Roll" made the cover of ''True Life Romance'' in 1956.]]
Several rock historians have claimed that rock and roll was one of the first music genres to define an [[age group]].<ref name="padel" /> It gave teenagers a sense of belonging, even when they were alone.<ref name="padel">{{cite book |last=Padel |first=Ruth |title=I'm a Man: Sex, Gods, and Rock 'n' Roll |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2000 |pages=46–48}}</ref> Rock and roll is often identified with the emergence of teen culture among the first [[baby boomer]] generation, who had greater relative affluence and leisure time and adopted rock and roll as part of a distinct subculture.<ref name=Coleman2007>M. Coleman, L. H. Ganong, K. Warzinik, ''Family Life in Twentieth-Century America'' (Greenwood, 2007), pp. 216–17.</ref> This involved not just music, absorbed via radio, record buying, jukeboxes and TV programs like ''[[American Bandstand]]'', but also extended to film, clothes, hair, cars and motorcycles, and distinctive language. The youth culture exemplified by rock and roll was a recurring source of concern for older generations, who worried about juvenile delinquency and social rebellion, particularly because, to a large extent, rock and roll culture was shared by different racial and social groups.<ref name=Coleman2007 />

In America, that concern was conveyed even in youth cultural artifacts such as [[comic books]]. In "There's No Romance in Rock and Roll" from ''True Life Romance'' (1956), a defiant teen dates a rock and roll-loving boy but drops him for one who likes traditional adult music—to her parents' relief.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nolan|first= Michelle|title=Love on the Racks|publisher=McFarland|date= 2008|page=150|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ndJ7BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|isbn = 9781476604909}}</ref> In Britain, where postwar prosperity was more limited, rock and roll culture became attached to the pre-existing [[Teddy Boy]] movement, largely working class in origin, and eventually to the [[Rocker (subculture)|rockers]].<ref name="D. O'Sullivan, 1974 pp. 38–9" /> "On the white side of the deeply segregated music market", rock and roll became marketed for teenagers, as in [[Dion and the Belmonts]]' "[[A Teenager in Love]]" (1959).<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Lisa A. |editor1-last=Lewis |title=The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media |publisher=Routledge |year=1992 |page=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10GznmSA3w4C&q=teenager+in+love |chapter=Beatlemania: Girls just want to have fun|author1-first=Barbara|author1-last=Ehrenreich|author2-first=Elizabeth|author2-last=Hess|author3-first=Gloria|author3-last=Jacobs<!--|pages=84–107-->|isbn=9780415078214}}</ref>