Things I find interesting about my topic: Sixties Culture
1.Decade of the teenager
2.Consumerism really took off
3.THE BEATLES
4.Music and events of the day interacted with one another as we progressed through one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.
5.Swinging London is a catch-all term applied to the fashion and cultural scene that flourished in London, in the 1960s
6.It was a youth-oriented phenomenon that emphasised the new and modern
7.Martin Luther King Jr. - Inspirational contribution to the progress on black rights
8.It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a cultural revolution.
9.British economy after post-World War II
10.Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s, and included music by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, The Small Faces, and other artists from what was known in America as the "British Invasion"
11growing popularity of psychedelic rock as Jimi Hendrix being represented as cultural icon
12.Mod-related fashions such as the miniskirt stimulated fashionable shopping areas such as Carnaby Street and the Kings Road, Chelsea. The fashion was a symbol of youth culture.
13.The British flag, the Union Flag, became a symbol, assisted by events such as England's home victory in the 1966 World Cup.
14.The fashion of youthquake was fun, spirited and youthful
15.New styles of art developed (pop art, experimenting)
16.Fashion world had discovered colour and freedom, a kaleidoscopic liberation took place after centuries of restriction.
17.Young people running revolutions, leading riots and challenging age-old authority.
18.The hippie movement endorsed drugs, rock music, mystic religions and sexual freedom
19.Woodstock
20.This "cultural decade" is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974
21.1963 – Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28
22.Construction of the Berlin Wall started in 1961
23.The Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara travelled to Africa and then Bolivia in his campaigning to spread worldwide revolution. He was captured and executed in 1967 by the Bolivian army, and afterwards became an iconic figure for leftists around the world.
24.1962 – The first computer video game, Spacewar!, is invented.
25.The movement was also marked by the first widespread, socially accepted drug use (including LSD and marijuana) and psychedelic music.
26.Feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s
27.Psychedelic influenced the music, artwork and films of the decade.
28.a number of prominent musicians died of drug overdoses (27 Club)
29.The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music.
30.The Supremes scored twelve number one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go".
31.The Kinks release "You Really Got Me" in late 1964, which tops the British charts; it is regarded as the first hard rock hit and a blueprint for related genres, such as heavy metal
32.In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.
33.The rise of 'art house' films and theatres.
34.The end of the classical hollywood cinema era.
35.The beginning of the New Hollywood Era due to the counterculture.
36.The rise of independent producers that worked outside of the Studio System.
37.Move to all-color production in Hollywood films.
38.The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket.
39.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.
40.Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt which became the rage in the late 1960s.
41.Men's mainstream hairstyles ranged from the pompadour, the crew cut, the flattop hairstyle, the tapered hairstyle, and short, parted hair in the early part of the decade, to longer parted hairstyles with sideburns towards the latter half of the decade.
42.Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized byTwiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade.
43.African-American hairstyles for men and women included the afro.
44.1962 FIFA World Cup — hosted in Chile, won by Brazil
45.1966 FIFA World Cup — hosted and won by England
2.Consumerism really took off
3.THE BEATLES
4.Music and events of the day interacted with one another as we progressed through one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.
5.Swinging London is a catch-all term applied to the fashion and cultural scene that flourished in London, in the 1960s
6.It was a youth-oriented phenomenon that emphasised the new and modern
7.Martin Luther King Jr. - Inspirational contribution to the progress on black rights
8.It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a cultural revolution.
9.British economy after post-World War II
10.Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s, and included music by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, The Small Faces, and other artists from what was known in America as the "British Invasion"
11growing popularity of psychedelic rock as Jimi Hendrix being represented as cultural icon
12.Mod-related fashions such as the miniskirt stimulated fashionable shopping areas such as Carnaby Street and the Kings Road, Chelsea. The fashion was a symbol of youth culture.
13.The British flag, the Union Flag, became a symbol, assisted by events such as England's home victory in the 1966 World Cup.
14.The fashion of youthquake was fun, spirited and youthful
15.New styles of art developed (pop art, experimenting)
16.Fashion world had discovered colour and freedom, a kaleidoscopic liberation took place after centuries of restriction.
17.Young people running revolutions, leading riots and challenging age-old authority.
18.The hippie movement endorsed drugs, rock music, mystic religions and sexual freedom
19.Woodstock
20.This "cultural decade" is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974
21.1963 – Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28
22.Construction of the Berlin Wall started in 1961
23.The Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara travelled to Africa and then Bolivia in his campaigning to spread worldwide revolution. He was captured and executed in 1967 by the Bolivian army, and afterwards became an iconic figure for leftists around the world.
24.1962 – The first computer video game, Spacewar!, is invented.
25.The movement was also marked by the first widespread, socially accepted drug use (including LSD and marijuana) and psychedelic music.
26.Feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s
27.Psychedelic influenced the music, artwork and films of the decade.
28.a number of prominent musicians died of drug overdoses (27 Club)
29.The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music.
30.The Supremes scored twelve number one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go".
31.The Kinks release "You Really Got Me" in late 1964, which tops the British charts; it is regarded as the first hard rock hit and a blueprint for related genres, such as heavy metal
32.In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.
33.The rise of 'art house' films and theatres.
34.The end of the classical hollywood cinema era.
35.The beginning of the New Hollywood Era due to the counterculture.
36.The rise of independent producers that worked outside of the Studio System.
37.Move to all-color production in Hollywood films.
38.The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket.
39.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.
40.Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt which became the rage in the late 1960s.
41.Men's mainstream hairstyles ranged from the pompadour, the crew cut, the flattop hairstyle, the tapered hairstyle, and short, parted hair in the early part of the decade, to longer parted hairstyles with sideburns towards the latter half of the decade.
42.Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized byTwiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade.
43.African-American hairstyles for men and women included the afro.
44.1962 FIFA World Cup — hosted in Chile, won by Brazil
45.1966 FIFA World Cup — hosted and won by England
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