Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
- ISBN-10
- 1440836671
- ISBN-13
- 9781440836671
- Series
- Pop Goes the Decade
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 283
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-24
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO
- Author
- Thomas Harrison
Description
This fascinating overview of popular culture in the 1980s describes the decade of excess that resulted from the social, political, and economic conditions of the time, documenting why so many milestones in entertainment, arts, and technology occurred the 80s. • Provides readers a detailed view of popular culture in the 1980s through the decade's memorable television and film • Offers an extensive "one-stop" discussion of visual art and architecture not found in other history reference publications • Establishes the context of technological developments in the late 1970s and 1980s in determining the culture and entertainment of the 1980s • Examines the connection between the growth of popular sports in the 1980s and developments in television technology, which made sports more accessible to a larger audience
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