ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an inventory of rock and roll experiences across generations to illustrate this argument. It highlights those rock and roll experiences most taken for granted by professional and lay observers alike, because those experiences function positively as elements of children’s culture. The chapter discusses the contribution of this style of analysis to the social scientific literature on rock and roll. If rock and roll affected the way they dated, mated, and resisted, then one would reasonably expect rock and roll music to affect the way they work, parent, construct and service relationships, and in other ways accomplish adulthood. Rock and roll functions as a mechanism for teaching religious beliefs and values in families, whether or not rock and roll is compatible with the particular family’s religious orientation. Rock and roll has always served as a special commonality between mothers and daughters.
