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Topic 4 - C3 - Cultural Challenge Flashcards

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What could it be argued about US culture between 1980-1992?

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Could be argued that there was no longer a dominant culture in the US. Young Americans challenged older Americans.

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What trends existed within youth culture?

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Challenged conservatism over issues such as sexual and social freedoms, drug taking and race.

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What was heavy metal characterised by in the 1980s?

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  • Initially popular with young white malesin the 1970s
  • Lacked radio play
  • Dominated youth culture in the 80s - lost outisider status
  • Popular themes included men victimised by female fatale.
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Who were popular Heavy Metal artists in the 1980s?

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Van Halen was popular, as was Dokken from 1983

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How popular was Heavy Metal in the 1980s?

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  • MTV promoted it
  • HM market share rose from 8% in 1983 to 20% in 1984
  • 1988 - 11 of the 50 best selling albums were metal
  • Alienated young white male fans, few women or blacks listened to it.
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What opposition did Heavy Metal face?

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  • From the RR and Parents Music Resource Centre.

- 1985 - PMRC pressured MTV to end promotion of HM and its explicit lyrics and videos.

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How did MTV respond to opposition to Heavy Metal?

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Headbangers’ Ball created specifically for HM by MTV, - 1.3 million viewers weekly.

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What controversial themes existed in rap in songs like ‘How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise’ (1980)?

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Black separatist group - Public Enemy - ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ (1988) showed incarcerated black Americans - referenced disproportionate number of young black males in jail

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Why was rap ignored by mainstream radio?

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  • Bigoted - Public Enemy made anti semitic comments
  • Sexist - Ice Cube’s hit album in 1980 made continual references to the masculinity crisis - spoke about wanting to kick a pregnant women in the tummy
  • Violent - 1988 Fuck Tha Police by NWA (Niggas With Attitude)
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Who were the few examples of women in rap and what did they encourage men to do?

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Queen Latifah and Salt N Pepa - male rap groups started a stop the violence campaign in 1988.

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What made rap more mainstream?

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Late 80s, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer showed how rap was becoming more mainstream

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Why was the Parents Music Resource Centre established?

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Motivated by sexually explicit lyrics, and lyrics of a violent nature or that glorify drugs and alcohol. Cited songs like Prince’s ‘Nikki’ and Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’.

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Why did the PMRC lack success?

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Music industry hard to police and rate lyrics like movies. Thousands of songs compared to hundreds of movies made per year, lyrics also subject to misinterpretation.

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What is an example of the PMRC misinterpreting lyrics and having their accusations under investigation from 1985?

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John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High wasn’t played on the radio because the PMRC thought it was singing about drugs when it was actually a hymn.

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What did 1988 concerns of suicide from the PMRC lead to after a suicide note contained the lyrics from Metallica’s ‘Fade to Black’?

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Voluntary rating system due to publicity from several highly publicised suicides.

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What influence did Madonna have after her first disco single Holiday?

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Had 12 top ten hits in a row between 1984-87. Used controversy to generate sales. Talked a lot about sex, promoted safe sex in her interviews, distributed condoms and performed at AIDS benefits.

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Why was Madonna a key target of the PMRC?

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  • ‘Justify My Love’ (1990) most upset PMRC - hinted at homosexuality and group sex. Banned by MTV - became best sold music video ever.
  • 1989 Pepsi advert had Madonna singing ‘Like A Prayer’- video contained religious symbols and Madonna making love to a saint - upset RR and Pepsi dropped their sponsorship.
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Which artists aside from Madonna were the PMRC also concerned about?

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  • Jello Biafra - leader of the Dead Kennedys - arrested in 1986 for distributing harmful material to a minor - young LA girl bought the group’s album and in it contained a poster picturing 10 penises and a vulvae
  • ‘As Nasty As They Wanna Be’ (1990) album by 2 Live Crew - first album to be deemed obscene
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How was opposition to the youth culture depicted in TV in Family Ties (1982-89)?

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About two ex hippie and liberal parents with a young Republican son and a highly materialistic daughter - both believers in Reaganomics. Demonstrated fragmentation of US society.

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How did personal computers become popular?

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1960s and 70s - confined to gov and corporate officials. 1981- IBM sold small desktop personal computers for use in the office or at home.

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How did Bill Gates exploit the popularity of PCs?

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  • Launched Microsoft, then microsoft word in 1983 and other programmes controlled by a mouse.
  • ¼ of US possessed a PC by 1990.
  • Microsoft’s employees grew from 3 to 6000.
  • By 1992, Microsoft’s annual income exceeded $1 billion.
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What impact did remote control devices have?

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Enabled viewers to channel surf and avoid advertisements

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What happened after the VCR was invented in 1960s but became popular in the 1980s?

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Mass production made them cheap and SC allowed recording TV shows from home. 1990 - ¾ US owned a VCR. Could rent films and play games.

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What impact did cassettes and CDs have after vinyl had previously been the means of listening to music?

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Customers from the 1970s could now record music onto blank cassettes or buy pre recorded cassettes and play them on their Sony Walkman or on a boombox. Late 1970s - CD became popular, offered entertainment solely for one.

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What impact did the deregulation of TV have in the 1980s?

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Encouraged expansion of cable services. Number of channels rose from 5 to several hundred. By 1990, 90% had cable TV.

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How did TV change after deregulation?

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  • ESPN started focussing on sports
  • C-SPAN covered federal gov activities
  • CNN - 24 hour news coverage from 1980 - covered the Gulf War in 1991- only news station with reporters inside Iraq
  • The 700 Club by Pat Robertson reached 50 million homes
  • Home Shopping Network advertised consumer products
  • Disney targeted children aged 6-14
  • MTV aired non stop music from 1981
  • Porn was more widely available
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Why was there far more sex and violence in 1980s film and TV?

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Programmes not subject to Federal Communications Commission. 1990s study showed profanity once every six minute pre cable but every 2 minutes on cable.

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What impact did MTV - the first 24 hour music cable channel and most influential music outlet - have?

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  • 85% of its mostly white, suburban audience was aged 12-34.
  • Most effective way to obtain a national audience.
  • 23 million viewers by 1982.
  • Inspired the development of other channels like Black Entertainment Television (BET) and The Nashville Network which offered country music.
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Why was MTV’s initial choice of music criticised by the popular press?

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Black artists rarely shown on TV and one employee admitted that this was due to not wanting to alienate the Midwest.

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When did MTV begin to show more black artists?

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When Michael Jackson’s popularity soared, MTV showed his videos like Thriller (1982).

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How did MTV try to appeal to young white men by objectifying women?

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Van Halen’s ‘Hot for Teacher’ (1984) and Robert Palmer’s ‘Addicted to Love’ (1985) in order to encourage male viewers to continue watching.

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Which artists retaliated with feminism to female objectification?

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  • Donna Summer’s ‘She Works Hard for the Money’ - single working mother exploited in the workplace.
  • Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ (1984) considered a feminist anthem.
  • Madonna made money objectifying herself in ‘Like A Virgin’ and ‘Material Girl’.
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What characterised the AIDS crisis in the 1980s?

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  • No cure in 1984 - virtually a death sentance
  • Associated with gay men and drug abusers
  • Thought it was God’s punishment for sexual deviance
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How many people had progressively died from AIDS?

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  • 5,500 Americans had died from in 1985
  • 46,000 by 1989
  • 80,000 confirmed cases in 1989
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After being advised to promote safe sex through sex education, how did RR respond to the AIDS crisis?

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His budget required a cut in AIDS research rather than finding the cure - meant HIV crisis was far worse is US than Europe.

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How did AIDS impact the gay community after initially scaring many gays into the closet?

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  • 1985 ¾ said they didn’t know any homosexuals
  • Anxiety generated by AIDS soon accelerated gay rights activism
  • ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) launched and in 1987 first gay pride parade in NYC demanding more rights and research into AIDS.
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What was the Ryan White Care Act (1990)?

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RW was a haemophiliac who got AIDS via blood transfusion - became spokesperson for AIDs sufferers - died in 1990 so cong passed RWCA - granted $220 million to help victims.

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Which film was the first to show AIDS after producers had been reluctant to do so?

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Longtime Companion (1989) was the first widely released movie to deal with AIDS - received critical acclaim but had a small audience.

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How did violence and sex increase in film?

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  • Basic Instinct (1992) sexually explicit film.
  • Concern among Planned Parenthood Federation of America -said there was 20,000 sex scenes on TV but no condom.
  • Frank discussion of sex occured on the Jerry Springer Show (1991-present).
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How was sex depicted more within teenage culture?

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Beverly Hills 90210 associated sex with being cool as a pre teen series. (1990-2000). The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1990-96) associated being a virgin with being a loser).

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What sexually explicit film particularly upset the religious right?

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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) took sex too far after depicting Jesus Christ as fantasising about marriage and sex with Mary Magdalene - upset RR.

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What violent films existed in the 1980s?

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Die Hard (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - banned from broadcast and cable networks in 1990.

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Which anti war films emerged in the 1980s?

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Anti War films - Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) based on memories of the disabled and disillusioned VNW veterans.

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How did the role of women change in film and tv?

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Roseanne (1988-97) struggling WC women who worked hard in under skilled jobs and then came home to do the housework. Showed how much mothers really did. Most watched TV show between 1989-1990

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How didn’t the role of women change in film and tv?

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  • Another Women (1988) and Criminal Law (1989) showed abortion as bad.
  • Fatal Attraction (1987) single career women seduces and nearly destroys a happily married man until the good mother manages to kill her off.
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How did Cagney and Lacey (1982-88) depict fragmentation in the views of the role of women?

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2 different women, one with a nuclear family and the other, ambitious, single and with multiple partners. Cagney showed to be less content and stable than Lacey who managed to combine work and motherhood.

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