... examine. During the Vietnam conflict, war had a very visible and direct affect on society, and most obviously, on popular culture - especially music. As that war raged on, and the television cameras overseas broadcast images of death and destruction all over the jungles of Southeast Asia, the ... war were to break out today, especially one directly involving the United States, would there even be a cultural revolution? How would it change popular music as we know it? Below are presented several different scenarios as to what could possibly happen should a MAJOR (not a quickie like the G...

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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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POP MUSIC HAS IT RIGHT America is the land of opportunity. Children are raised and taught that America is the best and they can do whatever they want. At this moment, ... keep our minds off of the war and the thousands that will die because of it. One of these distractions is music. Music of today is really at a high point. As I walk down the aisle at my music store, I glance at the old music of the 60's and 70's and begin to question the time period. The Vietnam War was in full throttle ... expanding drugs and basically just doing nothing to help the people of the country. I pick up a Door...

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... over 1,000,000 copies, which made her famous. Today Peggy Lee has the top rating as songwriter with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Peggy Lee 4). She wrote music and lyrics for motion pictures. Critic George Hoefer of "Downbeat" magazine has called her "the greatest white female jazz singer since Mildred Bailey." Leonard Feather in "The Encyclopedia of Jazz ... " has described her as "one of the most sensitive and jazz oriented singers in pop field." Peggy Lee was 1946 polls as best female vocalist of both "Metronome" and "Downbeat" magazine. She appeared on te...

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... and generally revolted against the conventions of society and politics as usual. Thus the society was divided, and this partition shone through in the music. Some musicians in the 1960s tried to unite the age-divided country, or at least tried to make those who opposed the counterculture movement ... was appalled by these lyrics, widening even further the gap that already existed. Vice President Spiro Agnew believed that "music glorified drug use," and that the "drug culture" was propagated by pop, and publicly advocated song censorship. Art Linkletter, a TV personality in the 1960s ass...

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... and many teens spent their time at the drive-in movies, local restaurants or record stores with their friends. Pop culture began to target this new, marketable social group; movies, music, and literature started to define their roles and their fashion tastes. Youth oriented styles reigned in the fashion world ... afraid to display their bodies in tight-fitting pants or skirts. The movies and the fashions that emerged were also influenced by the flourishing music industry, specifically in the form of "rock-n-roll."" Rock-n-roll inspired widespread change in all areas of culture, including...

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... write songs and learn to play the guitar. Hippies, in their rebellious stage, looked at their music as "stories that teach lessons that no school could ever teach" (Puz). Rock "n roll music was also revolutionized in the 1960's. The Beatles changed rock "n roll and created pop music as they quickly became the trendsetters of America. The Beatles were the most popular and influential rock ... act of all time. They helped to reshape Rock "n roll into "Rock music" that was capable of introducing serious social issues into the mainstream of American culture, thus, becoming "Pop music" and n...

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... Being celebrated over a week, from the article "Tale of two Tets" by Roxana Koperman and Chris Haire, Little Saigon features beauty pageants, cultural events and programs, traditional music, food and festivities. Vietnamese visitors come to perceive the taste of home and "show support to the community and how that [they] have not forgotten [their] roots" ... By Night to keep its Vietnamese roots, it serves a generational bridge within Vietnamese households by featuring bilingual songs and dances that borrow from current American pop culture. It showcases an incredibly diverse range of ...

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... also became a large part of the counterculture. The music festivals of the 1960's "embodied the idea of a rock & roll community," and "were meant to fix some problems of the Sixties rock shows".6 The music festival that set the stage for all the others was the Monterey Pop Festival which took place in June of 1967. It was "three ... days of music by thirty two acts, from Hendrix to Simon to Garfunkel" and "with as many as ... was on hand with a special gift for the attendees: 14,000 tabs of a potent batch of acid he dubbed Monterey Purple".9 Another very famous music festival that came...

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... and good looks that has kept him in such high opinion with the American citizens, in my essay I will examine these issues and more, looking at pop art recreations of JFK, Photojournalism used at the time of the presidency, I will also look at JFK the film, and Oliver Stones interpretation of aspects surrounding ... As well as being used to back up opinions by Oliver Stone, the Kennedy footage has been used in other ways, the songster Marylyn Manson, made a music video to his song coma white, in the video he re makes the JFK assassination video, with himself in place of the president, he ...

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... a common thought among Clergy and just about anybody over 30 in the 60's and 70's. It was also fondly referred to as, the devil's music. There was a popular belief that, if a person played certain records backwards one would hear messages from the Devil. That notion seems rather outrageous today ... It is doubtful that people will be talking about this 20 years from now. No body is really going to be proud of the current pop princesses and boy bands. They gave the current under 30 generation nothing to be proud of. However, people are still talking about The Beatles ... called for peace,...

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... in New York's Central Park. The love-in was a gathering of 10,000 people adorned in exotic hippie costumes and face and body paint. These people congregated for a day of music, dancing, drugs, and celebration. The Flower Power movement was also liable for many popular slogans, such as " War Is Not Healthy For Children And Other Living Things" and the infamous ... in the Catskill Mountains, just fifty-five miles away from the city of Woodstock; the location was changed at the last minute. There was abroad spectrum of music at the event, yet there was no pop, such as The Beach Boys or Son...

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