Questions

1. What are the specific signifiers of each genre of music-psychedelia, blues, soul, country, square, folk, hip, etc? (what are the roots of each?)

2. What were the important domestic and foreign contributions and failures of each presidency?

3. How did the public react to implications made of people in sitcom jokes, etc? For example, in an episode of All in the Family, each group, conservatives and democrats are teased? Were many people offended or oblivious or did they simply enjoy the irony or humor?

3 Questions

1. Who was the most effective President of the 1960s? How do these presidents we have studied compare to the ones of today? In many ways, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, etc. set precedents that our Presidents still follow today. Can you think of any?

2. Which music movement did you find to have the most widespread effect? What are the most dramatic social implications of any music movement?

3. Do Movies become the most significant form of art by the end of the 1960s? How has the transition into New Hollywood carried over into today?

1. What were considered the successes of the Weathermen Underground?

2. What caused America's psychedelic phase to end?

3. Was New Journalism a reliable form of journalism? Was it more honest than previous journalistic styles?

Questions

1) What characteristics of young people made them more likely to protest than other groups?

2)How, it at all, did the de-mythologized realism of the sitcoms in the 1970's affect public opinion about the "new normal"?

3) What were the values in country music that Nixon found appealing?

1. In what way did the protest activity influence the political spectrum of the 1960's?

2. Is there an idealogical connection between escapism and New Journalism? If so, what is it?

3. How do funk music and country music coincide as far as the racial standpoints that the signify? Is one more effective at conveying its intent?

Preguntas

1. When did communism begin NOT being such a scary topic to bring up? And what took its place as the epitomy of evil?

2. When and why did the MPAA assemble and being rating movies?

3. What are some of the things we should mention when we're asked to identify songs for the final?

Quetions

1. I was reading over the anti-war protest songs, and it really focused on how insincere the music was, did the anti-war folk music have any effect?

2. Did New Journalism have a far reaching effect on society or was it limited to a small audience?

3. It seems to me that in the early 1970's America basically forgot about Vietnam because of Watergate and Nixon, is this correct? If so, what effect did it have on the outcome of the war or how the war was dealt with in our government?

questions

1.) What was the Nixon administration's policy on the Vietnam war?

2.) "Howl" had a lot of a sort of shock value to it at the time. Was it meant like that, just to shock, or was it a sincere expression of Ginsberg's sentiments?

3.) Why did only African music come to be such a great influence on later movements?

1) With shifts in culture/media/technology, has the path to power changed? Is there now no longer a clear cut Ben Bradlee way to power with the Internet and new ways to reach across the nation and or the world?

2) The nation went from Magiccoms and monstercoms and country coms and militarycoms in the 1960s to Anti-warcoms, ethniccoms and gynocoms in the 1970s. Are there any "coms" that are political in the same way today as the Mary Tyler Moore Show showing feminist rights or Archie Bunker commenting on social mores?

3) What is the difference between soul and funk?

Questions!!!!!!!!!!

(1) How was the Nixon administration a harbinger of things to come and how did his administration impact people's perceptions of the presidency?

(2) How did the emergence of White Ethnics influence society and people's idea of their own identity?

(3) What caused black protest music to emerge? What were the defining features of this genre?

Questions

1. What factors led to the overall decline in the government's credibility among its citizens? What led to Nixon's involvement in Watergate and was it even necessary?

2. Are psychadelic rock and country music polar opposites? What factors do they have in common? What do they both commonly achieve? What do they achieve that the other cannot?

3. What are the origins of New Journalism and what was its appeal? Was it effective?

Questions

1. How could LBJ have better handled the Vietnam War that would have led to less friction between liberals and conservatives, or was it even possible?

2. Did the shift in popularity towards sitcoms on T.V. signify that the audience wanted to use it as an escape as opposed to focusing on reality?

3. Did protest songs do more harm than good when it came to appealing to the other side or was it merely a form of personal expression for the protesters?

Inquisition

1. What could the Weathermen have altered in their system of radicalism in order to have been successful? Would they have even been discussed in this cluster if they had altered their ways and minimized the amount of violence that they were associated with?
2. Does the value of a song decrease if the artist isn't authentic regardless of the sincerity of the song? For example, is Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction less powerful because he didn't write the song?
3. What precisely is it that makes New York journalism so different from that of journalism in the rest of the country?

???

1. What do you think of Carter's decision to pardon Nixon? Is this a power that should be awarded to the president?

2. Did the emergence of post-modernism coincide with the decline of religious practices? Did it arise because people of the 1960's were left feeling unfulfilled spiritually and so sought other means to grasp onto any glimmer of truth?

3. "We write songs; we know what we mean by them. But in a week someone else says something about it, says that it means that as well, and you can't deny it. Things take on millions of meanings. I don't understand it."

-Paul McCartney interview, ca. 1967-68

Does only pop music fit this code of open interpretation? Is this an innate characteristic of pop that allows it to appeal to the masses? Or can other types of music fit this description as well, such as Folk, if the lyrics and musical signifiers are more abstract?

Questions

1. Did Wallace's backlash politics focus on the Civil Rights Movement, counterculture, or simply all progressive leftist concepts

2. Is there any connection between new journalism and the coverage of Watergate? Were the practices of new journalism used in this coverage?

3. Is protest music only attributed to psychedelic and folk music, or music affiliated with counterculture? Or could funk music and other black power promoting music be considered a type of protest music?

questions

1. why was the 60s a prime stage for all of the protests that it had? was there any relation to the growing sense of individuality that many people felt in this time?

2. the fiddler on the roof was a great example of the white ethnic's desire to reflect on the old country and how things used to be and was a key to its success. are there any less obvious instances in famous movies where the plot refers in some way to the white ethnic movement?

3.Did any major traditional signifiers of music change genres in the 60s and did the meaning of those signifiers change with the genre shift?

Questions

1) Why was Kennedy so good at re-shaping conflicts during his campaign? Was it that he was able to scare Americans enough to follow his ideas regarding communism and our education standards, or that he was just a good advertiser?

2) Why were the news coverages of the Vietnam allowed to be so graphic and then why did the brutal truth in news fade off of the general news program, even into today?

3) Soul music wasn't really protest music the way Bob Dylan's music was until James Brown, but was there any black protest music in between that we just didn't cover?

Questions

(1)

In the American National Election Study from 1964 to 1972, how were respondents chosen? Does today's system today represent people of all races and backgrounds in the studies?

(2)

In Philip K Dick's Time Out of Joint, what was the meaning of the soft-drink stand disappearing? Did this have something to do with the knowledge we talked about in discussion? What did the soft-drink exactly signify, what was it's point?

(3)

When rock artists cover songs, such as the Quicksilver Messenger Service with Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?, is it considered to be participating in the folk process?

the 2000's

In my paper I am comparing the people's trust in the government and/or faith in humanity and finding a parallel in A Clockwork Orange (the movie). Do you think there's a specific media example that embodies a political feeling of the 2000's??

From September 11, 2001 to oil prices to Obama's inauguration and everything inbetween

Not from 1960s America, but please read if you have the time.

Korean Comfort Women

Starting around 1937, the Japanese started taking away innocent Koreans. There was conscription of Korean men into the Japanese military, to increase the number count of military in the Second World War. But what most of the world does not know is that 60,000 to 200,000 Korean women were taken as well. These women were known as the Comfort Corps--as a euphemism. These women were hardly women; the Korean women taken ranged in age from 11 to 24. Little girls were taken from their families to serve Japanese military men in SEXUAL SLAVERY. These young girls lived in horrid conditions, serving up to 20 men a day.

After 1945, these women were torn apart. Many had already died from either disease, malnourishment, or war causes. Many committed suicide so that they would not have to return to their families and bring shame to them because of what happened to them. Many were killed so that they could not tell their stories. To this day, the women who have survived have not received any apology from the Japanese government. The Japanese continuously deny that any of this happened, or claim that Comfort Corps had nothing to do with the government. These women have faced so many traumatizing events and adversities, all they want is an acknowledgement from the Japanese Government that their sexual slavery really happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xs4sORagrw&feature=related

(note: some of the claims in this video are a little misleading...the young girls were not just willingly sold into sexual slavery)

For Those of You Who Attended the Music Conference with the Paper on Autotune, Charlie Sheen's Autotune is "Winning"

This mix that transcribes Charlie Sheen's current philosophies into an autotuned song, is actually put together really well, it's "Winning."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg&feature=player_embedded

nagging questions

to add a little bit of clarification to the topic of relativism of knowledge, wikipedia defines it as mostly referring to moral principles and ethics and while some instances in science can be used as examples of relativism in knowledge, laws like gravity dont really fall under this category.

hmmm....

Pentagon Papers.........Wikileaks???

The Pentagon Papers drove Nixon to Watergate...

What will Wikileaks do to Obama?

Everyone seemed to be hiding something in the scandal, and I can see why the newer guys in office were. They were doing what they were told because they didn't know any better. They thought they were doing the right thing by protecting the president. But why did Haldeman testify and say he had one of the tapes in his possession over the weekend? I don't understand if he said this to protect the president by saying that the tapes could have been messed with or to say that they should be released. He was supposed to be close to the president but when he testified it seemed that he was lying becuase he couldn't remember any specific details. Do you think there was a possibility he was trying to reveal the truth without actually saying it, because he kept saying things that made Nixon look guilty?

In Tuesday's lecture it was mentioned that presidents after Nixon have used similar techniques to get what they want more quickly by dodging the formal channels, such as presidential signing statements. Because Nixon was able to come out clean after such legal atrocities, did that subtly signify to future presidents that it is within their right and power to act in such ways? Should Americans be just as suspicious now of our President's actions?

while looking up political songs for my paper, i found this website with a few political songs and the one that was interesting to me at least was the song about the iraq war and that made me think about how much the war in iraq and afghanistan relates to vietnam and this excerpt from the song felt the same way, acting as a voice of the 60s and 70s letting the youth of today know that the same thing happened to them back then.

http://www.brownielocks.com/sixtieswarsongs.html

Frost/Nixon... and some music

I don't know the accuracy of this film's portrayal of the Watergate scandal but it might be useful in helping to illuminate the somewhat dry political readings for this week. Here's the trailer and synopsis of the film:

Trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibxs_2nDXUc

Synopsis- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frostnixon/

On a side note, I found the music conference to be really interesting. I thought the "Reality Bites" segment shared some interesting arguments in regards to the kind of media our generation consumes. What were your thoughts? I'm especially curious as to what people thought of the third presentation on Ke$ha and her "native style".