MUSC 2150 Unit 9:1970-1975
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Music in the 1970s remains - correct answer ✔✔divided along color lines: white artists
dominate these genres, just as black artists dominate those in the next unit
The gender divide - correct answer ✔✔deepens: Rock, even more than in previous decades,
becomes more and more symbolic of male power and virility.
The technology that allows the electronic manipulation of sound becomes - correct answer
✔✔more compact and affordable through the 1970s, which allows more experimentation with
new instruments and effects by more artists
The 1970s was - correct answer ✔✔a difficult economic time for most western nations
What resulted in a recession in the United States that lasted from 1973-1975? - correct answer
✔✔The stock market crash of 1973-1974
High unemployment and high inflation
Earlier attempts by the Nixon government to control wages and prices
The movement away from the gold standard for most western currencies
The U.S. was already - correct answer ✔✔reeling from the oil crisis of 1973: an embargo on oil
shipments to the U.S. by the Arab members of OPEC
Oil more than - correct answer ✔✔doubled in price until the embargo was lifted the following
year
, The energy crisis - correct answer ✔✔continued, however, into the early 1980s, the price of oil
finally peaking at about six times the price of 1970
The period was - correct answer ✔✔not an optimistic one
The music that develops in this era tends to reflect - correct answer ✔✔this darker outlook or
to try to escape it through fantasy
The 1970s is home to - correct answer ✔✔to the angriest, harshest and most bizarre and weird
sounds yet encountered in the popular music landscape
By the early 1970s, the counterculture of the 1960s had become - correct answer
✔✔mainstream- hippie values
The Vietnam War effectively came to an - correct answer ✔✔end after President Nixon reached
an agreement with the North Vietnamese
Nixon resigned in 1974 as a result of - correct answer ✔✔the Watergate scandal
Jimmy Carter was elected in - correct answer ✔✔1976
Jimmy Carter faced problems including - correct answer ✔✔a poor economy (stagflation), an
accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, and the Iran hostage crisis
Feminism became known as - correct answer ✔✔"women's liberation" in popular culture; the
movement became mainstream in the 1970s- Ms. Magazine
Gay rights advocacy also became - correct answer ✔✔more visible - removed homosexuality
from list of diseases in 1973
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Music in the 1970s remains - correct answer ✔✔divided along color lines: white artists
dominate these genres, just as black artists dominate those in the next unit
The gender divide - correct answer ✔✔deepens: Rock, even more than in previous decades,
becomes more and more symbolic of male power and virility.
The technology that allows the electronic manipulation of sound becomes - correct answer
✔✔more compact and affordable through the 1970s, which allows more experimentation with
new instruments and effects by more artists
The 1970s was - correct answer ✔✔a difficult economic time for most western nations
What resulted in a recession in the United States that lasted from 1973-1975? - correct answer
✔✔The stock market crash of 1973-1974
High unemployment and high inflation
Earlier attempts by the Nixon government to control wages and prices
The movement away from the gold standard for most western currencies
The U.S. was already - correct answer ✔✔reeling from the oil crisis of 1973: an embargo on oil
shipments to the U.S. by the Arab members of OPEC
Oil more than - correct answer ✔✔doubled in price until the embargo was lifted the following
year
, The energy crisis - correct answer ✔✔continued, however, into the early 1980s, the price of oil
finally peaking at about six times the price of 1970
The period was - correct answer ✔✔not an optimistic one
The music that develops in this era tends to reflect - correct answer ✔✔this darker outlook or
to try to escape it through fantasy
The 1970s is home to - correct answer ✔✔to the angriest, harshest and most bizarre and weird
sounds yet encountered in the popular music landscape
By the early 1970s, the counterculture of the 1960s had become - correct answer
✔✔mainstream- hippie values
The Vietnam War effectively came to an - correct answer ✔✔end after President Nixon reached
an agreement with the North Vietnamese
Nixon resigned in 1974 as a result of - correct answer ✔✔the Watergate scandal
Jimmy Carter was elected in - correct answer ✔✔1976
Jimmy Carter faced problems including - correct answer ✔✔a poor economy (stagflation), an
accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, and the Iran hostage crisis
Feminism became known as - correct answer ✔✔"women's liberation" in popular culture; the
movement became mainstream in the 1970s- Ms. Magazine
Gay rights advocacy also became - correct answer ✔✔more visible - removed homosexuality
from list of diseases in 1973
