1960s: Katie and Holly
- "swinging 60s"
- cultural revolution
- movements: Civil rights - MLK, Cuban missile crisis, JFK assassination, hippie movement san fran
British teenagers:
- parents= WW2
- more free time and money - portable radios led to music demand
- No more forced national service
- Money for records and culture
- TV Programmes and magazines aimed at teens
music
- New styles of music
- biggest bands: Beatles, Lulu, Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Who
- American artists: Jimi Hendrix
Film
- More money to spend on cinema
- James Bond, Carry on Cleo
- Quadrophenia - Mods and rockers
TV
- Dr Who, Corrie, MOTD, Blue Peter, Thunderbirds
- American: Star Trek, Beverly Hillbillies, The Avengers
Mass Media Expansion
- 10 mill TVs in use - watched in evening
- TVs = 23% of leisure time
- BBC 2 1964
- Youths had radios - listened to pop music & to 1964 pirate stations -> led to R1
Adverts
Fads
- Mini skirt - peaked at 1967 = rebellion
- Go-Go boots - Nancy Sinatra
- troll dolls
- turtle necks
- slot cars - electric racing car toys
- Lava lamps
- tie dye tops
Family life
- less disipline
- family life less important
- ate dinner together and watched tv in evening
Slang
- Gimmie some skin
- Unplugged
- Bread
- Ditz
Subculture
- Mods - modern jazz
- Rockers - rock and roll - Quadrophenia
Concerns
- Only communication by phone
- racism and homophobia - seen as mental illness
- only married women allowed pill
1970s: Charlotte and Harry
Context
- Beatles break up
- Change to pound sterling
- Northern Ireland troubles
- Enter the EU
- Mobile phones invented
- IMF loan
- Elvis dead
- Test tube baby born
- Margaret Thatcher
Music
- Bowie
- Michael Jackson
- Pink Floyd
- ABBA
- Marvin Gaye
Films
- Star Wars
- Grease
- King Kong
- Superman
- Jaws
TV
- Dad's army
- The good life
- faulty towers
- only 3 channels
Mainstream
- Boho spirit
- leaps in social equality and eco
- roller skating
- casual fashion
- disco music by african americans and LGBT
- women in jobs
- Women empowerment
Adverts
- AVON
- different races emerging in advertisement
- road safety
Teen influences
- Diane Von Frustenberg - wrap dress for every body type
- Joni Mitchell - hippie
- Farrah Fawcett - must have celebrity hair style
- Bianca Jagger - suit at her wedding
Slang
- psyche
- boogie
Subcultures
- Black power movement, black is beautiful campaign
- LGBTQ
- feminism
- hippies
- heavy metal, punk rock
1980s: Phoebe and Leah
Context
- Margaret thatcher
- Lennon assassination
- Charles and Diana wedding
- MTV
- CDs developed
- Cocaine developed
- Laptops commercial use
- World wide web developed
Music
- Post punk
- Used new tech
- Heavy metal
- rock and pop
- beginning of hip hop
- Madonna
- MJ
- Prince
Films
- Annie
- Indiana Jones
- Risky Business
- Terminator
- Breakfast Club
- Back to Future
- Dirty Dancing
TV shows
- Eastenders
- Only Fools and Horses
- Blue Peter
Fads
- Leg warmers
- big hair
- mood rings
- Rubix cubes
Role models
- Madonna - carefree, powerful
Subcultures
- New Romanticism - nightclubs, supported by bands and artists, reaction to punk. Gender identities - wore sexual clothing - wanted to look striking and unusual
- Goths - spin off of punks -music = the cure, black fashion
- increase in working mothers
- more divorce
- scouts, cubs, brownies
- TV was main entertainment
1990s: sam and Lucy
Music
- Brit pop, Techno, indie-rock,
- Oasis, Blur, Spice Girls, Prodigy
- rave culture
Film
- comedy, drama, cultural diversity
- trainspotting, pulp fiction, fight club
TV
- Comedy: Abfab, have i got news for you
fashion
- buffalo shoes, windbreakers, skirts over jeans, frosted tips, slip dresses
Fads
- scooby doos
- tamagotchi
- beanie babies
Adverts
- Budweiser - wassup
Role Models
- Spice girls- girl power
- Naomi Campbell
- Oasis, Nirvana- grunge
World events
- Nelson mandela free
- OJ Simpson
- Cloned sheep
- Clinton impeached
- school shootings
slang:
- Bomb
- whatever
- talk to the hand
