According to Peterson, the six factors that shaped the emergence of rock and roll music in the 1950s range from the copyright law passed in 1909, the invention of vinyl records in the late 1940s through to the transistor radio and its effects on the American Youth.
Peterson explains how the transistor gave the American Youth the chance to listen to their own music away from their parents for the first time. He also explains how radio presenters began to transform into DJs trying to sell the station by making their own unique personalities. However Peterson fails to mention Rock music itself. How simple guitar rifts made it easy for budding musicians to play, unlike R&B and Jazz. He also fails to mention how the instruments had changed so dramatically in a short space of time, giving Rock its own unique sound, constituting the reader to question other factors in the birth of Rock and Roll.
Peterson simply uses the copyright act of 1909 as a starting point rather than a reason in and of itself. This is Generally a reasonable summary of his strengths and weaknesses.
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