This spring I'm teaching a class on the 1970s. My students will have easy access to movies, music, and some television from the 1970s, but what has weathered the past three decades isn't necessarily what was most popular or striking at the time. Likewise, my students can read history books, but what historians record isn't always what was on people's brains at the time.
In other words, I want to help my students understand the 1970s as someone who lived through them might instead of in the kitschy and snarky way VH1 presents them (although there is plenty of kitsch in any decade).
If you are old enough to remember any part of the 1970s, what sticks out most to you when you think of the decade?
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Being more familiar with the 70s than the 60s, I can't say for sure but it seems to me that the 70s were the point at which everyone started to go in different directions. Mostly in a pop culture sort of way. Prior to the 70s, it seems like everyone was familiar with the same things - same music, same TV shows, same movies, same books.
During the 70s it seems like everything got bigger, there were more choices. People didn't share as many of the same experiences. Everything wasn't as generic. Sure the Sixties had the Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones but that's about as big a choice as you had. And they were both rock and roll. You didn't have the choice of rock and roll or disco, or folk rock.
I could be completely wrong but that's how it seemed to me.
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