LACHIE'S+CULTURE+OF+POP+PAGE

WELCOME TO MY POP CULTURE PAGE   Wk 1. 1940's In the first half of the decade World War II was in it's second to last year when it ended in 1945. Inventions and developments:
 * What was happening in the world in the 1940’s?


 * The development of the [|Radar].
 * The development of [|Ballistic missiles].
 * The development of the [|Jet aircraft].
 * The [|Jeep].
 * The development of commercial [|Television].
 * The [|Slinky].
 * The [|Microwave Oven].
 * The invention of [|Velcro].
 * The invention of [|Tupperware].
 * The invention of the [|Frisbee]

If Nostalgia was created that may have increased popularity phenomenaly people want to be reminded of their past because the war was frightening people and they wanted to remember a happier time
 * Why were dance bands and their music so popular?
 * Why was nostalgia such an important element of pop music?
 * Who were the great music stars in the 1940?


 * ** __ [|Marian Anderson] __
 * __ [|The Andrews Sisters] __
 * __ [|Louis Armstrong] __
 * __ [|Gene Autry] __
 * __ [|Pearl Bailey] __
 * __ [|Benny Carter] __
 * __ [|Charlie Barnet] __
 * __ [|Count Basie] __
 * __ [|Irving Berlin] __
 * __ [|Mills Brothers] __
 * __ [|Les Brown] __
 * __ [|Les Paul] __
 * __ [|Sammy Cahn] __
 * __ [|Cab Calloway] __
 * __ [|Nat King Cole] __
 * __ [|Perry Como] __
 * __ [|Bing Crosby] __
 * __ [|Jimmy Dorsey] __
 * __ [|Tommy Dorsey] __
 * __ [|Billy Eckstine] __
 * __ [|Duke Ellington] __
 * __ [|Ella Fitzgerald] __
 * __ [|Ira Gershwin] __
 * __ [|Dizzy Gillespie] __
 * __ [|Benny Goodman] __
 * __ [|Dick Haymes] __
 * __ [|Billie Holiday] __
 * __ [|Lena Horne] __
 * __ [|Betty Hutton] __
 * __ [|Mahalia Jackson] __ || ** __ [|Harry James] __
 * __ [|Al Jolson] __
 * __ [|Danny Kaye] __
 * __ [|Sammy Kaye] __
 * __ [|Gene Krupa] __
 * __ [|Mario Lanza] __
 * __ [|Peggy Lee] __
 * __ [|Johnny Mercer] __
 * __ [|Glenn Miller] __
 * __ [|Charles Mingus] __
 * __ [|Vaughn Monroe] __
 * __ [|Charlie Parker] __
 * __ [|Édith Piaf] __
 * __ [|Cole Porter] __
 * __ [|Bud Powell] __
 * __ [|Max Roach] __
 * __ [|Richard Rodgers] __
 * __ [|Paul Robeson] __
 * __ [|Artie Shaw] __
 * __ [|Dinah Shore] __
 * __ [|Frank Sinatra] __
 * __ [|Kate Smith] __
 * __ [|Ink Spots] __
 * __ [|Billy Strayhorn] __
 * __ [|Ernest Tubb] __
 * __ [|Sarah Vaughan] __
 * __ [|Hank Williams] __
 * __ [|Bob Wills] __
 * __ Teddy Wilson __ ||

while the men were at war the women took over their jobs and the men came home the women lost their jobs so the men could have them back
 * How did the roles and lives of women change during the 40s

Wk2. 1950's

Bernard Salt places the Australian baby boom between 1946 and 1961. The baby boom was a time after the war when there was a large increase in the number of births throughout the world. southern U.S.A. The Korean war, The Cold War With peace around the world people were free to shop and build hence a change in the economy with all the children around, people had to conserve most things like groceries because many children consume much food
 * What was the Baby Boom?
 * Where did rock’n’roll originate?
 * What threats to world peace flared during the 50’s?
 * In what ways did peacetime encourage economic and industrial change?
 * In what ways were the 50’s conservative

Wk3.1960's

The 60s revolutionized peace, many people all around the globe celebrated peace. Also when man landed on the moon that revolutionized aircraft positively, as i previously mentioned when man landed on the moonpeole had a whole new vision of the sky change socialy within people either encouraging or discouraging them to act 'socially' ?
 * In what ways were the 1960’s revolutionary?
 * How did the ‘Space Race’ impact on the world?
 * What was ‘social change’?
 * What topics were the subjects of political demonstrations?

Wk4/5.1970's

The **civil rights movement** was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. It was accompanied by much civil unrest and popular rebellion. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and most of these movements did not fully achieve their goals although, the efforts of these movements did lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed groups of peoples. The "second-wave" of the **Women's Movement**, **Feminist Movement**, or the **Women's Liberation Movement** in the United States refers to a period of femenist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1970s. The 1970s started a mainstream affirmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as Rachel Carson and Murray Bookchin had warned of. The moon landingthat had occurred at the end of the previous decade transmitted back concrete images of the Earth as an integrated, life-supporting system and shaped a public willingness to preserve nature. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first Earth day in which over two thousand colleges and universities and roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools participated.
 * What was the ’Civil Rights’ movement and how did it affect society?
 * What advancements were there in the women’s movement in this decade?
 * How/why did the Environment become an important issue?

Wk6.1980's

Most of the people in the 80's were self-centered Madonna and Michael Jackson were very inflencial in the 80s many of their songs impacted on society
 * Why are the 1980’s seen as the ‘Me’ years?
 * Who were the influential musicians of the 1980’s and how did they impact this era?
 * How did the removal of the Berlin Wall impact on western culture?

Wk7.1990's

The 90s was the beginning of games and more advancements were made with computers and TVs personal computers have increased grammatical incorrection replacing sentences or words with letters 11/9/2001 Wk8.2000's
 * In what ways were the 90’s the ‘Electronic Age’?
 * How did the advent of personal computers impact on language?
 * Where were the beginnings of terrorism evident?

terrorism has increased national and even global security after the september 11 terrorist attacks
 * In what ways has ‘terrorism’ become a part of life?

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