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Music in 1949, the popular genre was straying away from jazz and into the cowboy and western theme of music. The cowboy theme was also on the television and radio. Teenagers liked listening to rock and roll and often joined the army to supply money for their family Arthur Miller won the pulitzer prize for his play "Death of a Salesmen" The US population was about 150M people, about half of what there is now. Many things were just recently introduce into the U.S. Such as the V.W. Bug and T.V. were just starting to sell on a large scale (17 million were sold over triple the sales of any other year.). Also  the song ·  "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was written by gene autry  the average yearly income during the year 1949 for a family of four was $5,292.The average salary was 2,992 dollars a year for one person and the workforce was 5 males to 2 females, they was also only 3,288,000 people that were unemployed that is roughly 2%.In 1949 there were only 146 million Americans (the baby boom would add 76 million more), the average life expectancy was women 71.1 and men 65.6

1949 Cadillac