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The Popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s: focus on music

The Popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s: focus on music. Has it all ended with the final years of the 1960s, as Dr. Medgyes suggested some time ago?. Background. Initial questions that gave rise to the course: Has nothing valuable, interesting or relevant happened after 1968?

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The Popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s: focus on music

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  1. The Popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s: focus on music Has it all ended with the final years of the 1960s, as Dr. Medgyes suggested some time ago?

  2. Background • Initial questions that gave rise to the course: • Has nothing valuable, interesting or relevant happened after 1968? • Were the 1970s the dying of what was born and grown in the ‘60s?

  3. End of the 1960s: our starting point • We must understand something of the 1960s to make some sense of the 1970s. • Especially, we must understand something of the transition from the ’60s to the ’70s.

  4. Autobiographical relevance • What can be achieved from an experience of growing up behind the Iron Curtain? • What claims can be made? • A perspective from behind the Iron Curtain • Cca. 300 records on vynil, CDs and tapes • Know about the „baby boom”?

  5. The baby boom, 1945-1960 (64?) • Murky limits to the period • Term comes from the US, but also in Canada, Australia, Britain and Western-Europe. • Writers, sociologists, demographers have started using the term for their own countries • Something similar in Hungary, too: „Ratkó-Era”.

  6. United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). The blue segment from 1946 to 1964 is the postwar baby boom.

  7. Why is the boom at all interesting? • Massive impact that lasts to this very day. • Helps explain a lot that happened in post-war US and elsewhere. • Helps understand the difference between 1960s and later. • A revelation about the role of demography • See separate handout

  8. Thinking and speaking task: the importance of the baby boom • photographic cameras • HIFI systems • toys • plastic models • jobs and business • cheap cars (Fiats, Beetles) • medical services • parents’ money • houses (real estate) • pensions • Merchandise, skills, expertise, etc. • credit • college education • music

  9. Study the timescale in the table belowFill the table with the items in the list above.

  10. Attached readings • Wikipedia • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom • What’s the pig in the python in the text? • Typically how old were those influential among baby boomers (look for some names in the text)? • What two main cohorts are distinguished between baby boomers?

  11. The musical scene: • Rock anthem Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock, 1953 • Victims or martyrs? • Jim Morrison (The Doors) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ9oHLqO0Vc • Jimi Hendrix • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRcQs7Qbgic • Janis Joplin • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG2gYE5KOs&feature=related

  12. Riders on the Storm • Riders on the storm X2Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrownLike a dog without a bone, An actor out alone, Riders on the stormThere's a killer on the road, His brain is squirmin' like a toadTake a long holiday, Let your children playIf ya give this man a ride, Sweet memory will dieKiller on the road, yeahGirl ya gotta love your man X2Take him by the hand, Make him understandThe world on you depends, Our life will never endGotta love your man, yeah, Wow!Riders on the storm X2Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrownLike a dog without a bone, An actor out aloneRiders on the storm, Riders on the storm X5

  13. Worth seeing: • Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic of Jim Morrison and the Doors, starring Val Kilmer • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZqGfW78BN0

  14. Homework • 3 readings from two encyclopaedias each • Handbook • Harmony • Follow links, listen to the songs., etc • How the Brits Rocked America, episode 1/1 • Questions on next slide. • Follow this link: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cGSW7rrZLg

  15. BBC video 1 • American rock and roll in the early 1960s is described with negative and critical words phrases, e.g. patriarchal Am. media? Note down as many of these as possible. • What was the „British invasion”? Why was it successful? • How were the beatles only „trailblazers”? • British kids raised on rations. How come? • The Brits were „groovy”? To mean what? • Do you recognize/notice any famous names/faces? Who?

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