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The USA, 1955–92: Conformity and Challenge

Changing popular culture

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Overview

Recall questions on the business of sport and Title IX, the fragmentation of music and the rise of hip hop, television's new realism, and the Me Decade.

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Who and when

How did the business of sport change?

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What was Title IX and what did it change?

Who and when

How did television change in the 1970s?

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  1. 1

    How did popular music change in the 1970s?

    Model answer

    It fragmented into genres such as disco, punk and rock.

  2. 2

    How did the business of sport change?

    Model answer

    Television rights transformed the finances of professional leagues, players won free agency, and salaries and merchandising grew enormously.

  3. 3

    What was Title IX and what did it change?

    Model answer

    The 1972 law banning sex discrimination in federally funded education, which transformed women's participation in school and college sport.

  4. 4

    What was the Battle of the Sexes of 1973?

    Model answer

    The televised tennis match in which Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets at the Houston Astrodome, a symbol of the women's movement's claims in sport.

  5. 5

    What was the significance of hip hop?

    Model answer

    Emerging in the Bronx in the 1970s, it gave voice to urban black and Hispanic youth and became a dominant global cultural form.

  6. 6

    How did television change in the 1970s?

    Model answer

    Programmes such as All in the Family and M*A*S*H addressed race, war and gender directly, breaking with the evasions of 1950s television.

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