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Mar 7, 2012 · Bruce J. Schulman in his 2001 work The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics surveys the history of an overlooked decade. Defining the “long 1970s” as the period between Richard Nixon’s entrance in the White House in 1969 and Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection in 1984, Schulman counters popular conceptions that the decade was seemingly forgettable and ...
Apr 23, 2023 · 70’s Safari and Military. While many people focus on the hippy and disco styles of the ’70s, safari and military looks were also exceedingly popular. These looks, which took off in the mid to late ’70s, were characterised by a utilitarian aesthetic and earth tones. In particular, khaki and sand colour palettes were a prominent part of ...
Sep 14, 2023 · American Woman. - Artist: The Guess Who. - Date entered at #1: 5/9/1970. - Weeks at #1: 3. A blues rock song, the perceived political messages from the lyrics of "American Woman" polarized listeners so much that First Lady Pat Nixon apparently asked the Guess Who not to perform the song when visiting the White House.
The film Woodstock appeared, presenting the counterculture of the ‘60s and ‘70s in a positive light, and least to their fellows in the counterculture. Another war film, Tora! Tora! Tora! depicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor factually, while attempting to present the Japanese as more honorable than perfidious.
Aug 22, 2016 · The Roches: “Hammond Song” (1979) This is one of those songs: Meteoric, out of the blue. Even in the context of upmarket ’70s folk— Linda Ronstadt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Phoebe Snow ...
The 1970s saw the emergence of hard rock as one of the most prominent subgenres of rock music. During the first half of the decade, British acts such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath were at the height of their international fame, particularly in the United States.
The hippie culture, which started in the latter half of the 1960s, waned by the early 1970s and faded towards the middle part of the decade, which involved opposition to the Vietnam War, opposition to nuclear weapons, the advocacy of world peace, and hostility to the authority of government and big business. The environmentalist movement began ...
