motivating large numbers of people to act for and achieve change. Popular culture in the 1960’s‚ e.g. Sex‚ Drugs‚ Rock and Roll‚ helps historians understand how changes reflected and influenced the thoughts of that time. Youths began to think that taking drugs and having sex was a natural and ‘trendy’ thing to carry out. The decade saw major changes like the rise
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in America up to the 1960s. In today’s world‚ racism is considered an indictable and immoral offence‚ especially in countries that host a diverse range of ethnicities‚ such as America. However‚ if we were to take ourselves just a couple of centuries back‚ to the 1800’s‚ we would find that the view on prejudice‚ especially towards the darker skinned races‚ was unfortunately‚ significantly different. The Negro people were treated harshly during those times and up until the 1960’s were diminished by
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In the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ the Civil Rights movement caused many good changes for black Americans including desegregation in schools and public area. Elizabeth Exford was happy to go to her first day of school at Central High School‚ in Little Rock‚ Arkansas‚ for the year 1957-1958. As she got there‚ a mad mob of people and the Arkansas National Guard blocked her path‚ making her walk away. President Eisenhower helped her and eight other negro students attend high school and were escorted by soldiers
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year 1960 was a year of new ideas and new beginnings. During the Cold War‚ the Civil Rights Movement and the changes in youth culture‚ Americans were looking for a new leader. The election of 1960 was a gateway to change in America. With a close popular vote Electoral College vote‚ the election brought in a new president with new ideas and beliefs. This change helped America during the Cold War and the Space Race‚ making America become one of the most dominate countries in the world. The 1960’s was
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it was also a way for other car companies to want to build their cars‚ and set the trend for other companies. The 4th generation Thunderbird was the best generation of them all because‚ of its unique differences from the other models. ( Cars of the 1960’s ) stated that the 4th generation took occurrence in the years of 1964-1966. According to (www.squarebirds.org) the 4th generation
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In the 1960’s‚ the United States plumed in an economic way! About twenty percent of the United States’ population lived under the poverty line. The 1960’s focused on structural poverty and culture of poverty. Structural poverty represented various failures of the economic system‚ and cultural of poverty focused on the idea of there being deeply entrenched social and financial habits. When many of the people thought about War on Poverty‚ it tied into Lyndon B. Johnson and the sixties. With Johnson’s
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positive force for society but failed to do so. Billie Holiday- Strange Fruit (1939) Strange Fruit is a haunting song about the lynching that happened in America. “Strange Fruit” has been called the original protest song. It is simple but effective poetry. A time when political protest was not often expressed in musical form‚ the song depicted lynching in all of its brutality. The three short verses are all the more powerful for their understated and ironic language. The smell of magnolias with
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Review Questions 1. What is popular music? Popular music is any music since the mid-1800s that is popular with the preferences of anyone from a teen to a mid-aged adult. 2. What theme does pop music typically use in the lyrics? Describe one pop song that uses this theme. Why is this theme such a popular one? Pop music typically uses the theme of love and relationships in the lyrics. One pop song that uses this theme is the song “Marry Me” by Jason Derulo. Some of the lyrics are “…And if I
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future and we are hoping that whomever reads this in the future sees that our ideas about a peaceful‚ accepting and proud America have held true in the time that you open this humble box”. This researcher removed five items all from the decade of the 1960’s; that hold great significance to the decade. The first item is a reel of film labeled “Walter Cronkite: Man on the Moon”. The second item was a bit curious; this item was a round plastic disc container with 28 little pills. The third item is 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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