Introduction
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest artist in the 1950's rise of rock and roll. They played to the new teenage audience growing through American high schools who were becoming the strongest critics of mass culture that had come after World War II. Elvis Presley, in 1955 led the way for rock and roll to thrive with his music, inspiring artist like Buddy Holly to begin their musical careers in rock and roll. Young Americans had, "Dance crazes, outlandish clothing, slang, rebelliousness, and sexual precociousness,"[2] which made rock and roll very appealing to them. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson were popular rock and roll musicians, whose death symbolized an end to the era of the 1950's style of rock and roll.
[1] Picture: http://www.newprophecy.net/Holly_Valens_Bopper.jpg
[2] Nation of Nations, pg. 839
