THE 1970s【荐】.pptVIP

THE 1970s ROCK MUSIC, DISCO, AND THE POPULAR MAINSTREAM American Culture in the 1970s By the early 1970s, the majority of Americans had grown weary of the military conflict in Vietnam Oil crisis in 1973 Economic inflation Growing cynicism about politics Watergate hearings The resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 Popular music remained the target of conservative politicians and commentators. American Culture in the 1970s The market for popular music became focused on two main categories: New generation of teenagers, born in the late 1950s and early 1960s Adults aged twenty-five to f