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significant and persistent increase in fertility and decrease in mortality

change for wartime to peacetime

government plays an active role

political strategy to limit soviet expansion

1948 → federal funding to western europe to help them recover and bolster military strength

1949 → alliances and strength relations

the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it

1937 → trying to find communists and discredit them (alger hiss trial)

refused to testify, and were convicted by congress

making accusations of subversion and treason in a public and attention-grabbing manner

american national exhibit (model home), with nixon defining freedim with consumerism while khrushchev argued about pre-existing poverty

formerly colonized countries gaining independence from their mother countries

boosted middle class through subsidies for housing

mass exodus of white people from cities to suburbs

rosser reeves → tells people what you want them to know straight up, forced the experience onto people (ike for president)

tony schwartz → leave everything to imagination, suggest the experience onto people (daisy commercial)

opinion of public about public good, interest, or common time and space

small group within total population

how questions are asked

principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated.

both sides think they have no other choice than to keep the balance by making more weapons

equilibrium that helps explain and predicts behavior under certain assumptions (prisoners dilemma)

academic study of signs and systems of communication

signifier and signified

sign at a social level

sound or image

concept (thought or representation)

aware of pervasive and usually unwitting signifying that pervades mainstream culture form discourse

taking signs at face value

represents a familiar present

represents a defamiliarized present

the way stories/songs/art is transformed and re-adapted in the process of its transmission

charlie parker → abstraction of cherokee

labor organizing song using a folk tune

postwar era, more formal version -- commercial art

end of folk process for the song

field recording done in a prison yard

commercialized folk

commercially disseminated folk

trying to be authentic, but just copying what blind lemon jefferson did

originality and sincerity

authenticity, sincerity, and originality

protect people from government and ensure they can exercise their rights

desegregating schools

march from selma to montgomery

prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

physiological differences

shared cultural traits

segregation by custom/practice, instead of by law

social segregation through the music industry

movement of african americans out of the rural south and into the urban north

written for thornton, original recording

humiliated and slut shamed for making the song so sexual (gyrations and hip thrusting)

square and corny

harnessing power of gospel to tell upbeat stories, the moving spirit

inspired resurgence of 50s rock

dylan goes electric, rock with a message

doing exactly what the people say

acting in the best interest of the people

leader in a democracy who exploits prejudice and ignorance

governor of alabama → ran on a platform of state’s rights and segregration in the 1968 election, won several states as an independent candidate

began with the great depression and social welfare, big government ideals with the new deal coalition, keynesian economics -- fdr (new deal) → truman (fair deal) → kennedy (new frontier) → johnson (great society

red scare, deindustrialization, civil rights movement, suburbanism

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southern coast of the united states -- florida through texas and into california

racial homogeneity, self contained and enclosed, obsession with order

explicitly anti-hippie, symbolized country in the moment -- reclamation of stigmatized whiteness

imitation of disney and american traditionalism, theme park for country

a performance of rural whiteness, portrays a racialized whiteness

social problems that make you afraid contrasted with the sense of the way things should be

watchdogs, defended public interest and exposed abuse of authority

read like a novel, with complex syntax and a subjective pov; journalists allowed transport to vietnam in military helicopters

major battle of the tet offensive

war for vietnamese independence from the french

north vietnam vs south vietnam (communist)

1965 - 1968 → gradually intensifying attacks, use of napalm

search and destroy, focus on body count

refers to how highly televised every part of the vietnam war was

forced working class to fight, while middle and upper class could avoid, large racial and age disparity

protest in east la against the vietnam war, national movement

making, view of the artist

sensing, view of the interpreter/listener

psychological perspective, experimental prose

ethnographic perspective

dream-like, ways to explore abstract ideas about mind-altering drugs

dechronization, depersonalization, and dynamization

output clipping from overdriven amp

low to high filter sweep

august 18, 1969

use of varying timbres and sound symbolism

the idea that society is made of many ethnic groups

the idea that there is an illegitimate power exercised by elites

surban north, “pigs” → polish, italians, greeks, slavs (notably not the irish -- immigrated earlier -- or the jewish -- model minorities)

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the u.s. was defined by the promise of freedom and equality, unlike european colonial powers

the attempt to create a sense of brotherhood and collaboration among all people of african descent, became a black cultural style

revolutionary front fighting for equality

natual hair and african fabrics used as signifiers of identity

embodies black power narratives, started by huey newton

politicized messages in music, inspiring confidence