The Sixties

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The Sixties
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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
• JFKs brother Robert was assassinated in 1968
• Man landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
• The Woodstock music festival 1969

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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

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People
Pierre Trudeau
Charles Manson
Audrey Hepburn
Betty Friedan
Neil Armstrong
Muhammad Ali
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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

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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)

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Music

• 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 1964-1966
• The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals,
  Dave Clark Five, Dusty Springfield, etc.

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Top ten songs of the 60s

• Hey Jude The Beatles
• Theme from A Summer Place Percy Faith
• Tossin and Turnin Bobby Lewis
• I Want To Hold Your Hand The Beatles
• Im 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
• Its Now or Never - Elvis Presley

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Folk Music

• 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

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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)

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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 childrens show of all
  time began airing Sesame street is still on to
  this day

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Television

• Other popular shows included
• Gilligans Island, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie
• Mission Impossible, Peter Gunn, Mannix
• The Flintstones, The Jetsons
• The Monkees
• Jeopardy began in 1964

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Movies

• Characterized by musicals and feel good films
  perhaps to counteract the negativity in the news
  and real life
• TOP TEN FILMS
• 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)

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Movies

• 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

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Fashion

• 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, tie-dye and batik fabrics, as
  well as paisley prints.
• The Beatles and Timothy Leary popularized the
  Nehru jacket, which had a short-lived popularity.

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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 chin-length 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.

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Fads and Trends

• Surfing and skateboarding took off
• Barbie exploded after being introduced in 1959
• GI Joe was introduced to compete for boys
  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

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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