I will be making some videos myself of a 1970s timeline presenting important changes. But for this week, other sources. You will not be surprised to find that the 1970s is "more complicated than you think". Here are some sources for you to be thinking about.
1. Pop music
Much has been written about popular music "reflecting society". This is easy to say, but not so easy to prove. What does "Pineapple Pen" show about 21st century neoliberal society?! What kind of analysis is possible? This article tries to explore 1970s pop music in the UK from this point of view - that is, not from the point of view of the musicians and their world, but of the listeners and their world.
What Has Popular Music Ever Done for Us? Pleasure, Identity and Role Play in UK Pop Music in the 1970s
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01966875/document
2. Feminism
Feminism in the UK in the 1970s has generally been massively oversimplified and stereotyped. Feminism was not considered as coterminous with women's liberation activities, at the time. The 1970s saw an immense variety of activities, ideas and proposals in this field. Here is a video about "radical feminism", sometimes referred to as "separatist feminism", which was a minority position within the women's liberation movement, but not a small minority, and with very significant influence for several years.
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