The Fifties
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The Beat generation / Bruce Cook ; interviewed by Milton Hoffman.
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Suburban sadness / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt.
“Suburban Sadness” was produced for the year 1952 in KPFA’s thirty-year retrospective. Suburbia’s housing developments and housewives, cars, televisions, drive-ins and Cold War anxieties are all discussed in the context of music from the early fifties. There is the story of a typical American family according to one journalist, and an analysis of suburbia by…