Changing popular culture

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What 3 icons of 1960s music died with the end of the era?
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison
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What was the coincidence about the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison?
All died at 27
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What type of music is associated with the 1970s?
Disco
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Which 1977 film immortalised the genre of disco?
Saturday Night Fever
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Name 3 other popular musical genres in the 1970s.
Funk, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, soul
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What 2 sub-genres did Rock 'n' Roll fragment into?
Progressive Rock and Hard Rock
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Name 3 artists/bands who took music in a new direction during the 1970s.
Queen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath
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Which 2 bands pioneered the punk movement?
The Ramones and The Clash
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For what reason was pop music of the 1970s criticised?
For being shallow
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What does the 'shallow' music of the 1970s show about culture?
Music was changing from being a medium of revolutionary ideas to being a method of entertainment which appealed to a much broader audience.
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What was the main driving force behind the American sports culture?
Increased amount of high quality colour TV sets in USA.
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What did these TV sets open an audience for?
Nationwide sporting events
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Why was advertising attached to showings of games?
To cover costs of nationwide broadcasting
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Which spot was most popular on TV?
American football
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What 3 companies were advertised on Monday Night Football?
Marlborough cigarette, Ford, Goodyear
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In what year was the first ever sports-only TV show launched?
1979
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What was the first sports-only TV show called?
ESPN
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For what reason did it become possible for film directors to challenge boundaries usually imposed on cinema?
The battle for ratings between film and TV was very competitive.
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What did films begin to do in the early 1970s?
Challenge the viewer and criticise American society
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What did Martin Scorsese's film 'Taxi Driver' provide a sinister reflection of?
The inescapable squalor of inner city life and the moral degradation of the era.
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Name one film which commented on the political system in the 1970s.
All the President's Men
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Which scandal did 'All the President's Men' focus on?
Watergate
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Name 2 films which depicted the submerged world of organised crime.
'The Godfather' and 'The French Connection'
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What was there a trend towards in cinema in the the later half of the 1970s?
Escapism
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Name 3 films made purely for escapism.
Starwars, Grease, Jaws
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What else did better quality TV have an effect on in terms of the Media?
The news and newscasts
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How did newscasts change?
Larger, more colourful news sets, where multiple anchors would deliver the news in a more personal and friendly manner.
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What aspect of the news showed an advancement of women's rights?
The addition of female news anchors to news shows.
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