AMS 231 Exam 2
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
