All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties

Synopsis of All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties

«All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties» is a visual essay on popular culture by Joseph Connolly, published by Cassell in hardback (128 pages, in English).

A survey of 1950s popular culture in Britain and the United States: the rise of rock and roll, television, dances and youth fashions. With period photographs, beatniks, bohemians and stars such as Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Buddy Holly appear, alongside advertisements, inventions and objects that defined the decade.

First published in 2000; thematic classifications place it in social history, popular culture and photographic collections.

For readers interested in the social history, popular culture and aesthetics of the 1950s, with a visual focus.