Introduction to Cultural and Historical Studies Spring 2013 Unit leader: Serkan Delice s.serkan@fashion.arts.ac.uk Introduction: What is Cultural Studies and why are we studying it? Conceptualising culture. Taking popular culture seriously. Fashion and culture: identity; structure and agency. Keywords: Culture‚ cultural context Conceptualising Culture Culture with a capital `C`: “the best that has been thought and said in the world” – Matthew Arnold Raymond Williams`s
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Beyond the Mirror: How Progressive Social Movements Influenced the Style of the 70s Written by: Carley Deibler AT 430‚ Fall 2016 Kansas State University Introduction Individuality was a key aspect of the 70s‚ and fashion had this style as its vocal point. In the early 1970s‚ Vogue magazine stated‚ “There are no rules in the fashion game now.” The decade known as the “Me” decade is known as one of the most complex periods in the fashion world. With key events happening‚ such as‚ women’s emancipation
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Psychedelic and surreal art are all about imagination. Although psychedelic art is know to be connected to drugs‚ it’s very interesting. Just take a pinch of surreal visuals‚ highly distorted illustrations and bright colors with full spectrums to delineate this specific concept. Animation and cartoons are also a big part of surreal and psychedelic art. Additionally‚ metallic foils and mixed media create a sense of “altered consciousness” as well. This style of art originated in the late 60’s. according
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across America from Ohio to San Francisco. In San Francisco is where he built his Ranch where he kept his “family” . Charles Manson would imply heavily that he was The Reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Is the majority of his quote family was misfit hippies who believed in God and the higher power. After the first murders Manson hid his group
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shirts and bell bottomed jeans would be worn along floral patterns and bright tie dyes and paisley patterns. Women would wear brightly colored glasses. Also Peasant blouses. Women wore tight fitting jeans and distressed jeans. Society’s dropouts‚ the hippies made their anti fashion statement in tattered jeans‚ long hair‚ beads‚ and old clothes (Frings). The 1970s witnessed woman at work striving for an equal place with men in the business world. Woman were trying to Make it up the Corporate ladder instead
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Trigonometry Trigonometry (from Greek trigōnon "triangle" + metron "measure"[1]) is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between the lengths of their sides and the angles between those sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions‚ which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclicalphenomena‚ such as waves. The field evolved during the third century BC as a branch of geometry used extensively for astronomical studies.[2] It is also the
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Youth‚ and Popular Culture in the 1960s 1960s is one of the most transformative decades on the timeline of America‚ though those old days were gone now‚ its impacts were still so eventful and momentous that they cannot be neglected even in nowadays (which is already half a century away from then on). The impacts were mostly on popular culture‚ it had changed people’s view on societies and it had also increased people’s capabilities and tolerance on different cultures‚ or more specifically‚ countercultures
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The way I interpret the four approaches to moral differences are as follows: Soft Universalism is where a person or people have certain morals they loosely base their actions/lifestyle on‚ but they don’t have any qualms with straying from them depending on the situation. I think this approach is more of a‚ coward’s way out‚ if you will. It basically means you don’t really have to stand by any morals whatsoever‚ because you can say you’re all for or all against something‚ until the situation arises
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* The media * A Multitude of Movements * Student Rebellions‚ The New Left‚ and the counter cultural movement * SDS (1960) and its goals * 1964 UC Berkeley and student rebellion * Cultural radicals: the hippies * The Rise of Feminism * Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique * 1968: the year of upheaval * January: the Tet Offensive and the credibility gap * March: LBJ would not run again for president * April: MLK
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basically states that education is a tough process‚ a changing process even‚ and if one wants to become educated‚ one must be willing to embody some type of mental and/or spiritual change. He makes the point that some people‚ which would most likely be hippies or democrats –but he refers to them as “Radical educationalists”‚ are quick to
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