1970s - Culture during the Seventies

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1970s - Emerging social perspectives in the Seventies. In the wake of the 1960s many of the social dimenisions and perspectives towards issues were increasingly seen in liberal perspectives. Universities became more friendly and less authoritative towards students. This was reflected in the corporate culture of the 1970s, where the hierarchy between supervisor and subordinates became increasingly flat. This had influence in social interaction and family relationship as well. The nuclear family rose to prominence ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Dancehall

Dancehall is a type of reggae which developed around 1979, with artists such as Yellowman, Super Cat, Barrington Levy and others who went on to become the Roots Radics. It is also known by some as "Bashment" and in the early 1990s the term Raggamuffin was established. The style is characterized by a DJ singing and rapping or toasting over raw and danceable reggae music (riddims). The rhythm in dancehall is much faster than in reggae, with drum machines replacing acoustic sets. In the early years of dancehall, some found ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park and World Heritage Site which contains the densest and most exceptional concentration of large pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a relatively inaccessible valley cut by the Chaco Wash. The park preserves one of America's most fascinating cultural and historic areas. Between 850 BC and AD 1250, Chaco Canyon was a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture. It w ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Asbury Park New Jersey

Asbury Park is a City located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 16,930. Asbury Park New Jersey - Geography. Asbury Park is located at 40°13'21" North, 74°0'44" West (40.222399, -74.012098)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²). 3.7 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 10.62% water.

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - American Indian Movement

The American Indian Movement (AIM), is an American Indian national liberation movement in the United States that burst on the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. AIM was cofounded by Dennis Banks, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, and many others in 1968. Russell Means was also one of the early leaders of AIM. In the decades since AIM's founding, the gro ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Weatherman organization

Weatherman, also known as the Weather Underground Organization and, colloquially, sometimes 'the Weathermen', was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men," and carried out guerrilla actions, now often characterized as terrorist, to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the government of the United States. The group collapsed shortly after the U ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Aran Islands

The Aran Islands (Irish: Oileáin Árann) are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. The largest island is Inishmore (Irish: Árainn (Mhór) or Inis Mór)1, the middle or second-largest is Inishmaan (Inis Meáin / Inis Meadhóin) and the smallest and most eastern is Inisheer (Inis Thiar or Inis Oírr / Inis Oirthir). Although the anglicisations are still used on map ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Darwin Northern Territory

• Summer (DST) not observed (UTC) Darwin is the territorial capital and most populous city of the Northern Territory. It is a city of 109,478 (est. June 2004) people on Australia's far north-western coastline. Darwin has a tropical climate, and is subjected to tropical thunderstorms and cyclones; the first recorded cyclone to hit Darwin was the 1867 cyclone, and much of the city was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. It is also the only Australian capital city to have come under substantial attack du ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Avante!

Part of the Politics of Portugal series Communist Youth Avante! O Militante Avante! Festival Unitarian Democratic Coalition European United Left List of Portuguese Communists Portugal Politics of Portugal Elections in Portugal Communism Marxism Leninism World Communist Movement Avante! (Forward!) is the official newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). Founded in 1931, it cont ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 October 16, 1875 Urban Private coeducational Parochial Owned by the LDS Church 32,400 2,100 Cecil O. Samuelson Cougars Cosmo the Cougar Dark blue and white (was royal blue and white until 1999) "The Glory of God is Intelligence" or "Enter to learn, go forth to serve" or "The world is our campus" Daily Universe ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Burgenland

Burgenland (Hungarian Burgenland or Várvidék, Croatian Gradišće, Slovenian Gradiščansko) is the easternmost state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte (towns with a charter) and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east (only 5 km wide at Sieggraben). Burgenland - Geography. Burgenland is the 7th largest of Austria's 9 provinces (Bundesländer), at 3,966 km². T ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Arts and entertainment in India

Arts and entertainment in India have a rich and ancient history. Right from ancient times there has been a synthesis of indigenous and foreign influences that have shaped the course of the arts of India. Arts refer to paintings, architecture, literature, music, dance, languages and cinema. In early India, most of the arts were derived Vedic influences. After the birth of Jainism and Buddhism, arts flourished under the patronage of kings and emperors. The coming of Islam spawned a whole new era of Islamic architecture. Finally t ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - 1960s

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these na ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Bridgend

Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont) is a town in the traditional county of Glamorgan and the main town in the county borough of Bridgend. Bridgend is in South Wales, roughly midway between the principal cities Cardiff and Swansea. The river crossed by the original bridge which gave the town its name is the River Ogmore but the River Ewenny also passes through the south of the town. Bridgend has greatly expanded in size since the early 1980s and now has a population of around 40,000. Bridgend - Castles and foundati ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - Back to the land

Today, the phrase "back-to-the-land movement" usually refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s (which is discussed further, below in this article). This particular back-to-the-land movement was a migration from cities to rural areas that took place in the United States, its greatest vigor being before the mid '70s. Back to the land - A recurring pattern. By way of context, a few things may be usefully said. The American poet/anthropologist Gary Snyder (who is also an amateu ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - African American literature

African American literature is literature written by, about, and sometimes specifically for African Americans. The genre began during the 18th and 19th centuries with writers such as poet Phillis Wheatley and orator Frederick Douglass, reached an early high point with the Harlem Renaissance, and continues today with authors such as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou being ranked among the top writers in the United States. Among the themes and issues explored in African American literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American ...

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1970s - Culture during the Seventies: Encyclopedia - 1964 New York World's Fair

The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was the second World's Fair to be held at Flushing Meadows Park in the Borough of Queens, New York in the twentieth century. It opened on April 22, 1964 and ran for two six-month seasons concluding on October 17, 1965. It was the largest World's Fair ever to be held in the United States, occupying nearly a square mile (2.6 km²) of land. Truly a "Universal and International" exposition, the Fair's theme was "Peace Through Understanding," dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Glo ...

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