AMS 231 Exam 2

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What song was ironically played in the 1984 Republican National Convention

"Born in the USA"

Two ads that showed Yuppie influence on consumer culture

Omega Watches - "When you can have whatever you want" L'Oreal - "I'm Worth It"

Yuppie religion

PTL ministry - Jim and Tammy Faye Baker "How to Have More in a Have-Not World", 'You Can Have it All - Now"

3 industries on the rise during Deindustrialization/the decline of the Rust Belt

real estate, technology, corporate agribusiness

Satirical movie about the Yuppie generation

"American Psycho"

Proposition 13

"Tax revolt", limited CA state property taxes, revolution against the govt.

First show on MTV about Rap

"Yo! MTV Raps" 1988

Demographic profile of a Yuppie

"young urban professional"; young Baby Boomers, income above $40k, upward mobility

Messages of "Born To Run"

- runaway American dreams - reality doesn't match up with the typical dream anymore - need to escape, youthful desperation - working class factory town life = cage = 'suicide'

2 new activist groups as a result of AIDS crisis

ACT-UP and Queer Nation

new name AIDS stands for

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

book/movie by Randy Shilts about scientific and political responses to AIDS

And The Band Played On (1987)

He resurfaces from Black Panthers with a BBQ business

Bobby Seale

who initiated the Names Project/Memorial Quilt

Cleve Jones

RR compared his life to what works of literature

Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer; referring only to charming parts, had family problems

TV shows about Yuppie generation

Dallas ('78-'91), Dynasty ('81-'87), Family Ties

What was the initial term for AIDS

GRID: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency

group that formed in response to GRID, gay profiling of disease

Gay Men's Health Crisis

Posed with enemy troops in the 70s, now a fitness star for Yuppies

Jane Fonda

Punk song response to deindustrialization

Minutemen "This Ain't No Picnic"; low budget song/video, grind of a factory job

song about gangsta rap, out of LA

NWA - "Straight Outta Compton" '88

RR saw America's past in what painting

Norman Rockwell's "Freedom From Want"; idealistic terms, positive

song that starts video w/ Malcolm X, expose on drugs, violence, racial profiling

Public Enemy - "Night of the Living Baseheads" '88

song about abusive relationships, feminism in the rap world, addressing men

Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y."

Moral Majority

Rev. Jerry Falwell attacks the 'permissiveness' of 'liberal causes'; too many traditional values broken 1979

Known as "The Great Communicator" and "Rawhide"

Ronald Reagan; conservatives and critics miss the point of his presidency

2 central cities for deindustrialization and rap music

The Bronx (NYC) and South Central LA

Reagan's America: trends in film industry

blockbuster films, new tech like VCRs and cable TV, sequels and reassurance through repetition

Yuppie politics showed a general trend toward _______ politics

centrist; liberal on social issues, conservative on economic issues

RR suggested the SAG purge suspected ____________ from the film industry

communists

1981 National Economic Recovery Act

cut personal income taxes 25% across the board over a 33 month period, cut maximum capital gains tax from 28% to 20%

agenda of the "New Right"

cut social programs, cut taxes, free market capitalism, meet Soviet challenge with military might, grow big business and shrink govt.

"4-H" risk groups identified in AIDS crisis

hemophiliacs, Haitian immigrants, heroin addicts, homosexuals

Key themes of graffiti

identity and location; could claim a public space

key themes of rap music

identity, location - destructiveness of drug use, alcohol, prostitution - need to break cycles of violence and poverty - urban decay - police brutality and racial profiling - mass incarceration of young black men

"supply side" or "trickle down" economics

let corporations hang on to more profits, reinvest to expand; corporations' share of federal tax burden decreases

Significance of Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985)

look back to fix the turmoil of the decade; look back at the Vietnam war w/ different outcome for soldiers; RR's desire to show Vietnam in better terms

Yuppie view on money

money = choices = freedom

Yuppies and family patterns

more women claiming both careers and families, added stage to the life cycle (double income, no kids)

B-boys

multiethnic youth subculture, competitive 'crews' were neighborhood based

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

proposed to mount lasers on satellites to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles; used science and technology to work through America's problems

Charlie Daniels Band "In America" (1980)

resurgent patriotism, kick-ass on the global stage

Significance of Raising Arizona (1987)

satirical perspective of RR and moral majority; unusual family contrast to nuclear family; parody of western

Final scene from "The Deer Hunter"

sing "God Bless America", somber tone with loss of friend, desire to hold on hope for the nation in 1978, nagging doubts

3 industries on the decline during Deindustrialization

steel and automobiles, mining, family farms


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