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The 1950s The 1950s were a time of considerable cultural change in America. Although this decade is often remembered for its battles; the physical war in Korea and the ideological war with the Soviet Union, the politics of the 1950s revolved around opposition on the domestic front as well, especially as new gender roles were being defined in preparation for the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Although Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (released in 1963) remains to be the first and most revolutionizing piece of media to procure the theme of women's liberation, the origins of the social movement and its themes of feminine equality and heightened social status can be found in prior works of media, and specifically, in music. The top-40 song "Whatever Lola Wants" by jazz-singer Sarah Vaughan illustrates this presence. Vaughan's success as a performer was directly attributed to "her 'one of the boys' attitude" as stated by a musical scholar at Duke University. (http://www.duke.edu/~omn) This status"ensured tha