... should be listening to, how they should act, and what they should look like. Pop culture, in turn, defines what one should look like through movies, television, magazines, catalogs, billboards, fashion, and music. Wherever we look, catalogs, magazines, television, movies, and billboards, images show us the cultural standard, what we should be like and that is in ... fashion. The standards that women should be beautiful and sexy are present throughout these images. Girls as young as twelve start to dress up and imitate Britney Spears (left) wanting to be like her. On Opera, there was a s...

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... lime green and pink (Powell, 48). The new decade arrived and the hemlines went up, the mini-skirt, in eye-catching colors, and see through material all were the newest fashion for women. The men started wearing tight fitted suits and short Chelsea boots. Along with this era the Hippy era began. Hippies were laid back and an Anti ... -Fashion people that went for the naturalistic look, it did not matter if clothing was long or short, patterned or plain any thing went for this group. The women started to ... in the late fifties but some also took place in the sixties, buildings had new t...

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... class and race lines. There were hardly any African Americans on the popular music scene. Popular music was thought to be very middle-class; the upper-classes were confined to opera and classical music. In the Sixties, however, those lines were blurred and a new one became more pronounced; one that divided society by age. This division caused two "sides" to the ... , the crew-cut haircuts became long, moppy hair, and the slacks became ripped jeans. Girls were no longer confined to wool skirts; they ported the ripped jeans as well. The "fashion war" was such a battle, that there was a Bro...

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... , and Ravel. The first performance was that of Dvorak which was the Carnival, concert overture, Op.92. This piece was meant to be in one movement and to begin an opera or a play. It is played in A major but dances around keys before going back to where it starts. It was alive and colorful, with support from cymbals, the tambourine, and ... of Khachturian featuring the Violin Concerto. It spotlighted the delightful violin soloist, Julia Fischer, who is all but 20 years old. The conductor escorted her to the stage in dramatic fashion. She played beautifully, conquering many technical diffi...

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