1960's coursework
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In the 1960s popular culture started to change and sex, drugs and violence became a big part of it. The new culture supported involved teenagers moving away from their parents and rebelling against their culture, music and fashion. The new bands advertised sex, drugs and violence, which were practiced by their many fans. They were able to mimic the stars as it was much easier to see and hear them due to transistor radios the emergence of BBC 2, which played, shows where you could watch the stars perform. Source g supports the ideas of rebellion and drugs being a part of 60's popular culture where it says, "the singer Janis Joplin" was "a rebellious teenager" and " died of a drugs overdose".
Source F expresses the opinions of Mary Whitehouse, a Christian campaigner who fought for many years against sex and violence on TV. She believed that this content was a bad influence on British Society. In the source she is quoted to say that the BBC censors against " much which is good and clean in our national culture" so any other program is sure to have a morally negative influence on British society .The examples of violence on TV and the characters of pop stars may have caused the fights among the different subcultures that developed in the 60's based on music and fashion.
Also fashion changed from the elegant style where maturity was the aim to the opposite extreme where it was fashionable to look childish and immature, and where a lesser amount of clothing such as the mini skirt...