Elvis Presley!

Elvis Presley has influence and changed music since the day he started proforming. He caused a revolution. The way he sang and danced was very differnt and unique at the time,but before long people were using his moves and things. He was the main influence for music still today. He is like the Michael Jordan of Music! Thats why they called him "The King"!

Decades::1980-1989::

"If you got it, why not flaunt it!"(this was a big saying in this decade)

Fashion: People dressed in the Opulent Clothing style. They were tank tops, tight fitting jeans or torn pants, and leg warmers. Michael Jackson and Madonna were the big influences of fashion at this time.

Fads: Team sports were real popluar. The term "soccer mom" came into play.Nerds became a hot commodity in the 1980's!

Books & Literature:

There were 13 books that sold over one million copies! Donald Trump wrote two books at this time called "Trump: Surviving at the top" and "Lacocca:an autobiography". Some Famous authors were:Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth, Martin Cruz, and Stephen King.

Television & Radio:

The sales of VCRs rose. By 1989, 60% of American households had cable. TV started having anti-family shows like Roseanne and married with children. Tabliod TV started with Geraldo, Phil, Sally, and Ophrah.

Theater & Film:

Broadway revivals were very important druing the 80's! Some big broadway plays were Westside Story, The King and I, Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit, Cats, The Phantom of the Ophera!

Art & Architecture:

the 80's were a huge decade for art, art museums, and artists. People bought art at record prices...like Van Gough's 'Sunflowers' sold for $39.9 million. Some famous artists were Jasper Johns, Keith Haring, Frank Stella. Some famous Architecure built in the 80's were The Trump Tower, High Museum in Atlanta, Union Station in Washington.

Education:

UCLA did a study and found out that college freshman were most interested in their status, power and money. Business Management was the most popular major. People started showing their disapproval to the rising student costs and how they were against budget cuts.

Music:

MTV started, CDs were invented, people were learning how to dance from MTV. They were learning dance moves such as slam dancing, Lambada, and Break dancing. Then 'Vogueing' became real popluar! Pop, Rock, New wave, punk, country, and rap or hip hop were real popluar! Some important groups were Milli Vanilli, M.C. Hammer, Vanilla Ice, and L.L. Cool J.

Events & Technology:

Science/ Tech. made large strides in the 80's. Personal computers were bing used in homes, offices, and schools. Columbia was launched in 1981, the Challenger exploded 74 seconds after lift off and killed 7 astronauts and 1 school teacher. Major Advancements in genetic research in 1988's happened. They found out that there is 80,000 genes contained in human DNA. Wayne Williams was arrested for the murder of 23 black children. Sandra Day O'conner became the first woman in the supreme court justice. Sex revolution encountered major adversity when Rock Hudson died of Aids in 1985.

Decades::1990-1999::

Here is some information on the 1990's!

Fashion & Fads:

for fashion the grunge look was very in and just now started beginning. Boys pants started getting real long, big, and baggy! Casual Fridays started in most work places. Microfiber and tencel was put into a lot more clothes!

and for fads Tae-bo was in so was in-line skating, beanie babies, furbies, the phrase WWJD, yo-yo's, tattoos, and body piercings.

Books & Literature:

Audio books started becoming real popular. Listening to books in the car was real cool! Buying your books online started happening, people were buying their books with amazon.com. The book store Half Price Books became real popluar!! Some famous books writen at this time wereL Holes by Louis Sachar, Out Of the Dust by Karen Hesse, Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding hood story from China by Ed Young.

Television & Radio:

Tv was watched all the time now by families. people spent atleast 7 hours a day watching it. the 10 most popluar shows were: Cheers, 60 minutes, Home Improvement, Seinfeld, E.R., Touched by an Angel, Friends, Veronica's closet, NFL Monday Night Football, and Fraiser.

Theater & Film:

Revivals were big hits on Broadway and around the country. Muscials started to be real popluar around the world. Academy Award Winning Movies were: 1990- Dances with Wolves, 1991-Silence of the Lambs, 1994-Forrest Gump, 1995-Braveheart.

Art & Architecture:

Health care and Elder care homes were big business for builders/architects. Architecture was growing along the coastline from Florida to Louisiana. Internet had a big influence on the Art and Architecture. Feng Shui was in. Martha Stewart became popluar.

Education:

40% in the 1960's completed all four years of school and in 1999, 83.5% completed! Students didn't have to actually attend class, but could still do their work online because of Distance Eduaciton Programs. Schools started making kids wear uniforms. Online classes were being offered. There were some issues in Education they were: Distance education, year round school, dual or con current credit, school-to-work and tech. prep!

Music:

Music was growing rapidly. There were many chioces of music to choose from and new artists were beginning. Country music became more mainstream, and grunge and gansta appeard. R&B and hip-hop remained popluar. One group that became famous was the Spice Girls because of their diversity and sex appeal!

Events:

Sadam Husien invaded Kuwat and caused the Gulf War. Some big issues were health care, social security, reform and gun control. Violence was an everyday thing. O.J. Simpson was triled for killing his ex wife. In 1993, Terrorism was brought into America when a bomb went off beneath the world trade center. From Febuary 1996 to April of 1999, there were sixteen shootings at different schools!

Decades::1950-1959::

Here is almost everything to know about the 1950's!

fashion:

it was blue jeans for the boys and poodle skirts for the girls. Girls loved to wear their hair in pony tails and the guys either had flat tops or crew cuts. Saddle shoes and blue suede loafers were worn. The guys all wanted to be like James Dean, he created a "fashion with attitude". They dressed like him, wore their hair like him, they all just wanted to be like him and all the girls wanted to marry him.

Fads:

some of the popular things in the 50's were hula hoops, hopalong Cassidy guns and western gear, and silly putty.

Books & Literature:

Most of the books published at this time were influenced by the wars that had happend and the wars that were still going on. The authors used the books that they wrote to get their opinions out about the wars. Science Fiction became real popular at this time, the main idea that people who wrote since fiction novels love to write about space travel.

Television & Radio:

In the 1950's Television became the dominat mass media. People started believeing everything they heard on TV.

In 1951, scientist deveolped the coaxail cable and microwave relays coast to coast. In 1954, Color broadcasting started happening.

Some popluar sitcomes at this time were: I Love Lucy, Honeymooners, Lassie, and Father Knows Best.

Art & Architecture:

There was a new look that started in the Art and Architecture world after World War II happened. Abstract Expressionism started. In the 50's a boom in consumerism happened in housing. People could afford sing family dwellings and suburbia was born.

Education:

The education went through a lot of changes at this time. The law of separte but equal happened which was educational oppertunites for black children had been determined to be the correct method to insure that all children in America recieved an adequate and equal education in the public schools of the nation. In 1957, Elizabeth Eckford was the first black teenager to enter an all-white school at Little Rock Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Books at this time were being writen about black and whites were cauing one crisis too many!

Music:

Rock N Roll was very popluar! At this time, muscians were very experimental with trying to make the newest, coolest sound. Some famous artists were: Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Events & Technology:

1950-President Harry Truman approves production of the hydrogen bomb.

1951-Transcontinental television begins with a speech by president Truman.

1953-1961-Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president.

1953-Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are electrocuted for their part in W.W. II espionage.

1955-Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus

1956- Federal Highway Act is signed

1958-Explorer 1 successfully orbits the earth.

1959- Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states.

Sports:

people have been in love with sports since the 1950's! They started using the TV to follow the football or baseball games. At this time athletes were in a diverse group. Popluarity wsas not based on social status, but on the ablilty of the individual. Famous athletes included: Jackie Robinson, Henry (Hank) Aaron, Jaun Marichal, Frank Gifford. They also started the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Decade::1960-1969

A lot changed in the 1960's. For starter, lets take the fashion and fads:

Fashion & Fads:
At the beginning of the 60's, they dressed real reserved, but towards the middle the women started cutting their hair, wearing shorter skirts and shorts, tighter shirts with big shoes. The men started wearing bright jackets and pants, their hair got real long and thicker.

Books & Literature:
A lot of books were influenced by politics at this time. Then as time changes, the women started writing books on feminism.

Television & Radio:
The radio was the main way to listen to music at this time. New music developed and new dance moves were developed too. TV was really used for cartoons. A lot of cartoons were made for parents and kids. A lot of humor shows were made for the older people.

Theater and Film:
This started the growth of theater in the 60's. It was being done in more places than New York City. If the play was popular most of the time it became a movie/film. Sex was in a lot of moves now, but it was mainly ignored.

Art & Architecture:

The styles were a lot different at the time in the 60's. It was constantly changing. The art was influenced great by the future or what they thought the future was going to be like.

Education:

Education for the american children isn't very good at this time. They had to basically rethink their teaching methods. Because there were many problems with their methods. It wasn't just their methods that was causing children to fall behind in their education; there was some events happening at the same time: The schools and the school buses were being integrated (which a lot of people thought was wrong). Also the boys were being drafted into the Army, which they weren't able to finish their high school education.

Music:

This was the time that many famous people started. Drugs was the main affect on music. New musical technologies were developed.

Events & Technology

A lot happened in the 1960's with technology and events: The civil right movement happened, Malcom X made his speech about black nationalism then was assassinated, better words describing African Amereicans were approved. birth contol was developed and abortions were leagal, hippie have movement, LSD was used, JFK and Martin Luther King was also assassinated, and the space race began, first artifal heart was placed in a woman.

Sports:

Olympics in the 1960's happened, both winter and summer. Of course, America dominated in everything, America won the gold for almost everything with men, women, white and blacks.

Decade::1970-1979::

here is what the life style was like in the 1970's!

Education:

The education in the 70's was greatly shaped by a series of events:

• Anti-war movement

-alot of college and university students showed their opinion for it.

• School Integration

-When schools integrated it carused alot of problems and put students behind in their education path.

• Education of all Handicapped Children Act of 1975

-equal edxucation provided for the handicapped children.

Music:

As "Rock N Roll's" famous influences died or broke up along with them so did rock N roll. All different types of other "rockers" came out. Soft rock, country rock, folk rock, punk rock...and disco started. Some big bands that were popular in the 1970's were : Aerosmith, the Bee-gees, David Bowie,Alice Cooper, Ealges, Billy Joel, Elton John, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Who,Carpenters, and Bob Marley

Events & Technology:

Things that were invented-Floppy disk, Microprocessor,Atari, VCR, Neutron Bomb, First test tube baby, genes were discovered, then genetic engineering was deveolped. Some events that happend-

• April 22,1970- First Earth Day celebrated


• May 4, 1970- 4 students killed when national guards fired during anti-war demonstration at Kent Starte (universtiy of Ohio)


• June 28, 1970-First Gay Pride march


• April 24,1971- Huge anti-war march in Washington D.C.


• September 5, 1972- 19 killed in terroist siege at Muncich olympic Games.


• August 9, 1974- Ford became the 38th president


• March 28, 1979- Radioactive leak at three Mile Island Nuclear power plant

Sports:

At this time the two big teams were the Cowboys and the Steelers. They were also a big rivalry! Prifessional athletes demanded a raise in money. Then endorsing became extremly popluar for professional athletes, which earned them more money.

Big Events:

• Febuary 18, 1973- Stunt driver Evel Kinievel jumped across 50 cars stacked four deep in the Los Angeles Collesium.


• April 8, 1974- Hank Arron hit his 715th home run and beat Babe Ruth's record.


• Febuary 25, 1978- Kurt Thomas became the first american man to win a medal at the world gymnastics championship; taking first in the floor exercise.

Theater and Film:

Beacuse of how popluar TV beacme, movies were not so popluar, but they invinted panavistion and Dolby sound to advacne the move and a big come back of movies started. Some big movies at this time was Startwars, Rocky, Poseiden Adventures, Godfather, Grease, Saturday Night Fever.

Televesion & Radio:

TV became real popluar in the 70's. Nothing was private anymore. TV shows talked about everything , it didn't matter what the subject. some major shows were all in the family, Saturday Night live, Happy days, The Brady Bunch, and sesome street for the kids.

Books and Literature:

Many books were written in the 70's. They were written about "man's alienation from his spirtiual roots" (http"//kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html)

Fashion and Fads:

Fashion and fads were big in the 1970's. Some fads were going nude around places was the wildest fad, lots of poeple drove startion wagons and alomost everyone desired and hoped for an RV. Mood rings. Lava Lamps, Rubik's cube, sea monkeys, smile face stickers. The popular fashion was men had shoulder length hair, bellbottom pants, hop huggers, platforms shoes, earth shoes, Leisure surits for men and women's skirts went from really long to real short called micro-skirts.