Transcript The Sixties - Mr. McKinnon

The
Sixties
News
• The sixties were dominated by political news
• Berlin Wall erected - 1961
• There was a nuclear crisis in 1962 with the Cuban
Missile Crisis
• John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 and assassinated
in 1963
• The Vietnam War began in 1965; many protests followed
• Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968
• JFK’s brother Robert was assassinated in 1968
• Man landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
• The Woodstock music festival 1969
Civil rights movement
•Began before the 1960s
• 1962 The National Guard is called out
to oversee the integration of the
University of Mississippi as James
Meredith becomes the first Black to
enroll
•1963 – MLKJ “I Have A Dream Speech
•1965 – Malcolm X assassinated
•1967 – Race riots in LA and Detroit
•1968 – Mexico City Olympics – Black
Power protest
People
Music
• The music of the sixties carried off where
the fifties left off until about 1964
• Girl groups very popular early sixties
• British invasion- Beatles, Rolling Stones
etc
• Psychedelic rock and experimental sounds
• Woodstock music festival capped off the
decade
• Popular styles: r and b, rock and roll, folk
music
Beatlemania
• First appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show February 9,
1964
• Held the top five chart positions April 4, 1964
• Sold over 169 million albums in the US alone
• Music changed from simple rock and roll in the early
days to psychedelic and acid rock in the latter years
• Starred in movies
• Broke up in 1970; each had successful solo careers
• Only two original members still alive (Paul and Ringo)
• The British Invasion
was an influx of rock
and roll performers
from the United
Kingdom who
became popular in
the United States,
Australia, Canada
and elsewhere. The
classic British
Invasion was in 19641966
• The Beatles, The
Rolling Stones, The
Animals, Dave Clark
Five, Dusty
Springfield, etc.
Music
Top ten songs of the 60s
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Hey Jude – The Beatles
Theme from A Summer Place – Percy Faith
Tossin and Turnin – Bobby Lewis
I Want To Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
I’m a Believer – The Monkees
I Heard it Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
Aquarius – The Fifth Dimension
Are You Lonesome Tonight? – Elvis Presley
In the Year 2525 – Zager and Evans
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Folk Music
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The 1960s was a tumultuous period for the
United States, with the Cold War, Vietnam War
and Civil Rights causing massive public unrest.
• Music became innately tied up into causes,
opposing certain ideas, influenced by the sexual
revolution, feminism, Black Power and
environmentalism.
• Central to this trend was a folk roots revival
• Singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan and Joan
Baez broke new ground in lyrical approach and
personal style in composition
Television
•Beverly Hillbillies – one of the
most successful shows of all time
•Instant hit – within three weeks of
first airing, #1 show
•With limited shows at the time,
episodes of this show were
watched by upwards of 60% of the
public
•The Brady Bunch – began in
1969
•First show to show a blended
family
•Has been constantly on in re-runs
since 1975 (365 days a year)
Television
•The 60s brought us such memorable series as
Star Trek
•Only 78 episodes – but started a huge series
of other shows
•In 1969, the most beloved children’s show
of all time began airing – Sesame street is
still on to this day
Television
• Other popular shows
included:
• Gilligan’s Island,
Bewitched, I Dream of
Jeannie
• Mission Impossible, Peter
Gunn, Mannix
• The Flintstones, The
Jetsons
• The Monkees
• Jeopardy began in 1964
Movies
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Characterized by musicals and feel good films;
perhaps to counteract the negativity in the news
and real life
TOP TEN FILMS
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101 Dalmatians (1961)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Thunderball (1965)
Goldfinger (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Mary Poppins (1964)
• James Bond debuted in 1962
in Dr. No
• Sean Connery was in 6 films;
there are 21 in total
• Bond films have some
common conventions: the
gun barrel sequence
opening; an opening gambit
prior to the credits; a theme
song sung by a popular artist
(Tina Turner, Madonna etc.);
a “Bond girl”; technological
advances; expensive and
fast cars
Movies
• The 1960s in fashion featured a
number of diverse trends.
• It was a decade that broke with many
fashion traditions that mirrored social
movements during the period.
• Early in the decade, culottes were in
style and the bikini finally came into
fashion in 1963 after being featured in
the movie Beach Party.
• Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt and
it became the rage in the late 1960s.
• The hippie movement late in the decade
also had a strong influence on clothing
styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tiedye and batik fabrics, as well as paisley
prints.
• The Beatles and Timothy Leary
popularized the Nehru jacket, which had
a short-lived popularity.
Fashion
Fashion
• Afro became the hairstyle of choice
for African-Americans.
• Women's hair styles ranged from
beehive hairdos in the early part of
the decade to very short styles
popularized by Twiggy just five years
later.
• Between these extremes, the chinlength contour cut was also popular.
The pillbox hat was fashionable due
almost entirely to the influence of
Jacqueline Kennedy who was a
style-setter throughout the decade.
Fads and Trends
• Surfing and skateboarding took off
• Barbie exploded after being introduced in 1959
• GI Joe was introduced to compete for boy’s
attention
• Troll dolls
• Lava lamps
• Waterbeds
• Twister
• The peace symbol
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Slang
Bummer- a bad experience
catch some rays - sunbather
chick - a young woman
deb's delight - eligible bachelor
flake off - scram
flower child - hippie, member of the counterculture
for real - truly, indeed
hawk - war supporter
heavy - powerful
Hood - small-time, petty criminal
hot dog - show-off
shuck - a phony
sit in - to take over an area in protest
Spaced - out high on drugs
zit - pimple
Inventions and Innovations
1960 – Birth control pill
1961 - valium
1962 - Wal-Mart opens its first store
1963 – touch tone telephone
1964 – computer mouse
1965 – contact lenses
1967 – first Super Bowl held
1967 – first heart transplant; hand held calculator
1968 – first bank machine
1969 – barcodes