A Great Culture

As many of us who live in the so-called Western World know, "popular culture" is the perceived icons, attitudes, movements, images and ideas that are mainstream to that specific culture. Emerging in the 20th century, more specifically, around the mid 20th century, before going global around the turn of the century, popular culture influences the lives of not only individuals, but also society itself, with the mass media itself heavily influencing what is popular or not.

This page will detail a different outcome of popular culture, from music to film, and everything in-between, we shall look at a different development of culture, beginning in the 1950's.

Note - I have designed this page as more of a though experiment than an actual timeline (though I may convert it to one later on). I have also trivialized pop culture, to make it the easier to understand. Other groups in society exist outside of popular culture, and they shall not be denied their time in the spotlight.

This is also open to anybody who wishes to post ideas or events that shall occur. If you have any questions or ideas that you are not sure of, please post in the talk page.

1950's
Let's begin in the "traditional" birth place of pop culture, the 1950's. With the different sounds and sights, the 1950's were a changing time for much of the world, with the nations of the British commonwealth finding their own national identities following WW2. In America, let's say, instead of Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly becoming "mainstream" popular genres, the mass media instead focuses on the changing sound of Jazz, and the new up-and-coming Soul/Jazz crossover genres.

Here, traditional Rock'n'Roll fails to find its way in the sea of the new Jazz sound, remaining a more fringe art, thus allowing much more experimentation with the genre. The greats in OTL like Elvis Presely and Buddy Holly are not the "swinging" rock singers they were here, but mere Doo-wop singers, struggling to find their way to the top whilst Jazz singers like Gil Evans, Ray Charles and Lester Young sit on the throne of 1950's music.