The Cold War and American Pop-Culture The influence of the Cold War on American popular culture in the 1950s is very clear. "As true today, popular culture in the 1950s meant primarily movies, television programs, and recorded music as well as fiction, drama, and even fashion and comics." The ... associated with the Communist Party. Lastly, the influence that the Cold War had on American popular culture is evident through analysis of the popular music of the 1950s. As a result of the Cold War, American popular culture was largely dominated by anti-communist ideals and subsequently caused mass...

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... other risks" (www.druginfo.com). The biggest and most specific concern are advertisements that use elements of youth culture, such as animation, music and fashion to create a positive association and affiliation with youth. In 1984 the drinking age changed from eighteen to twenty-one. Around this ... time alcohol industries, such as Budweiser, stared to use animations in their advertisements. Specifically, one commercial used animations to show a football player pop out of a magazine and use a Budweiser beer bottle cap as a football to play against another animated football team. When I ...

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... technology has upon the artist/performer and its relationship with the ever-expanding companies responsible for this technology. The developing technology of recording has been a huge influence on music. One of the earliest examples was the proliferation of jazz and later blues across America. Although essentially "folk" musics of the United States their proliferation from their ... are further priced out of the range of a learning or poor musician, killing local traditions of music using native non-mass-produced instruments. This is combined with the relentless global marketing machine ...

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... it clearly was becoming in this time frame. The 1970s proved to be the perfect era to breed an outspoken Chicano leader or two. The 70s are famous for enlightenment, music festivals, and all around happier, more carefree times than the 1950s and 1960s, but it should be noted that there was no shortage of injustices, mistreatments, groups that felt they ... that farm workers receive. This is because up until the early 1980s, a free market in the grocery industry existed, meaning farmers could distribute their produce to several thousand mom-and-pop independent grocers who then set their ...

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... ', immediate images of exotic beings and places, fundamentalism, Islam, hookahs and pagodas come to mind. Western media and pop culture has influenced our idealistic misconceptions and the way in which we interpret and understand the Orient. In an age where television and music dominate children's culture it is easy to fall victim to these false representations of the Oriental world, namely Asia ... long robes called djellaba and pointed slippers called babouche serve a fine Moroccan meal which is nothing more than American food with a twisted Arabian name. Diners can enjoy live traditio...

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... (especially female) have come to accept these actions as normal. However, these broadcast television shows pale in comparison to MTV's messages. For years, Britney Spears' fans have idolized her as a Pop Princess. Britney's songs include "Hit me baby one more time,"" and "Oops, I did it again."" These songs, as many of her others are laced with so much sexual innuendo you ... by 9 to 14 year olds. She is now a self-proclaimed bad girl and very sexually prevalent as evident in her "Dirrty Video- which looks more like soft-core porn than a music video. Her provocative moves in her video d...

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... meaning since its conception in the late 1950's. Its slight changes in name such as post -Modern, postmodern and Post-Modern Movement have isolated it from other advents such as Pop art and feminism, which took place quite independently, (hence the lack of the word "post"). Post Modernism is sometimes thought of as anything after modernism, but it is hard and ... Post-Modern Movement has reached a revolution in Western and European culture. It has productively challenged the period of influence of Modern art and architecture. This revolution has cut across film, music, dance, religion, ...

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