Friday on my mind,- the 60s
• The 1960s was a decade of extreme change all over the western world.
• Popular music, movies and television shows drove this, creating a new globalised and westernised world
• Here are some of the
shows and acts that
made this possible
Popular Culture 1960s
• During the 1950s and 60s increased incomes and new technology
made media powerful
• Entertainment was linked to media ,
movies continued, but records and TV shows took over.
• Most material came
from the USA
U.S. Television Rules
• Television dominated social life with 3 commercial
networks and the ABC to choose from
• When people weren’t
watching shows they were talking about them
• Shows were overwhelmingly American ,although the ABC ran some BBC programs
• On the next slide you can click on links to 22 of the hundreds of US programs shown on Australian TV.
• Click on image to view shows from the 1960s
The US influence
• Australian Culture was seriously influenced by American Culture
• This was a global phenomenon. The dominance of the USA after 1945 was insidious
• As an ally of the US, Australia embraced the American way of everything
• From Elvis hairstyles in the early fifties to Hippie lifestyles and Hendrix in the late sixties
• As we were the only major ally of the US in the Vietnam War, the US
moratorium was mirrored here
• Woodstock69, the big 3 days of peace, love and rock was copied
with Wallacia Jan 1970 and Sunbury 1972.
Click on Uncle Sam for the US story of Rock
Click on Hendrix for Hendrix
Rock and Roll
• The revolution in music that began in the USA,
“Rock and Roll” – was echoed in Australia
• Our remoteness resulted in local acts becoming popular as the big names were too far away.
• Copy acts and TV shows like Bandstand became part of Australian culture
More American prepackaged culture
• When the Beatles took the USA by storm and EMI grabbed a huge
slice of the market share from RCA. The
Americans created a completely artifical band
• Complete with TV show and Concert deals
• The Monkees were another US HIT in Australia
The Music Revolution
• The American
revolution of “Rock and Roll” became world
wide.
• The access to new music via radio and records changed
popular music for ever.
• Rock and Roll changed
society and began the
move towards equality
for all , blacks, women
and gays
The British Invasion
• The new youth culture was common to the English
speaking world, British
bands doing Rock and Roll stormed the US and the
world in 1964
• Australia followed, but only one local rock band made it worldwide in the 1960s – The Easybeats
with Friday on my mind in 1966
• In the 1970s a related
group ACDC would set the world on fire
Popular Culture and Atom Bombs
• Popular Culture was the most powerful weapon of the cold war.
• Broadcast into
communist countries Rock Music won the hearts of young people
• And the walls came down in 1989
• End of the Cold War
Links and citations
• http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-725474247846149000&ei=aO2cSo6hJ ImiwgPe-syJDA&q=berlin+wall+down&hl=en
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easybeats
• http://www.picnicpth.schools.nsw.edu.au/Faculty_Webs/longago/POPULAR%20CULT URE/popularculture.ppt
• http://thecentrecannothold.net/category/rnr-history/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1960s_American_television_series
• http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60stv.html
• http://madeinatlantis.com/popular_culture/revolution/american_television.htm
• http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties
• http://www.backdate.co.uk/
• http://www.sixtiesmusic.org/
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3981364972665945187
• http://www.milesago.com/festivals/sunbury72.htm
• http://www.elharo.com/blog/images/monkees.jpg
• http://video.google.com.au/videosearch?q=monkees&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE- SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF_en&um=1&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8&sa=N&tab=iv&start=0#
