The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program invites members of the Case Western Reserve University community to an upcoming lecture titled “‘I Met Him at the Candy Store:’ Early 1960s Pop, Tonkin Gulf and Fallen Youth” Tuesday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to noon. This lecture will be offered in person at the Landmark Centre Building (25700 Science Park Dr.), Suite 100, and virtually via Zoom.
Samuel T. Nemeth, part-time instructor of performing arts at Ohio Wesleyan University, will present this lecture.
The sounds of teen idols, girl groups and infamous “Splatter Platter” records had filled some of the void left after the end of the “Golden Age” of rock and roll. It is sometimes asserted that the onset of the British Invasion prematurely “snuffed out” some of these American popular music styles that emerged between 1959 and 1963.
Nemeth suggests that foreign policy events, namely the Congressional passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in August 1964 and the U.S.’s fuller entry into armed conflict in Vietnam, were pivotal to the shift in the music industry after 1963.
A light breakfast and coffee will be served for in-person attendees from 10 to 10:30 a.m. The lecture will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon.