The Fifty Most Important Phenomena in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture History

The Fifty Most Important Phenomena in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture History


50) Camping Culture
-The Millions in Our National Parks


49) The Resort Vacation Fantasy
-From Hotel del Coronado to Key West to South Beach to Hawaii


48) Youth and Extreme Sports
-From Skateboarding to Snowboarding


47) Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Pop Art
-Even the Desert Arts Communities Popularized by Georgia O'Keefe


46) The Mall
-And What about the Department Store?


45) Self-Alterations
-From Tattoos to Piercings to Plastic Surgery


44) Talkies
-Who Could Forget Al Jolsen's Rendition of "Sonny Boy"?


43) CDs


42) American International and Teen Pics


41) Surf Culture
-From the Beach Boys to Annette


40) Film Noir


39) The Seattle Sound
-How Nirvana Changed Rock


38) The Workout Culture
-Remember John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis in Perfect?


37) Video Games
-The Road from Pinball


36) The Musical Film
-From the Golden Age of Hollywood to Moulin Rouge


35) The Children's Book Serial
-From Dr. Suess to Harry Potter


34) Cartoons (Print and Television)
-What Is American Popular Culture without Snoopy in Our Newspapers or the Roadrunner on Saturday Morning?


33) The Kid Show
-From Sesame Street to Barney


32) MTV and the Music Video


31) The College Sports Phenomenon
-Especially Saturday Football!


30) Disney


29) National Tabloids and Newspapers
-From The National Inquirer to USA Today


28) The Space Obsession
-From the First Man on the Moon to UFOs
-From I Dream of Jeannie to The X Files


27) The Super Hero
-From Comic Books to Feature Film


26) The Western and the Cult of the Cowboy


25) The Soap Opera


24) Pop and Pulp Fiction Novels/Novelists


23) Max Factor and Make-up


22) The Television Talk Show
-From Phil Donahue to Jerry Springer to Oprah


21) The Pop Music Star(s)
-Who Could Ignore Madonna, Britney Spears, the Spice Girls, and the
Omni-present Boy Bands like N Sync?


20) The Explosion of Mass Advertising and Marketing
-From Major Labels (Coke and Levis) to Infomercials to Shopping
Channels to the Japanese Marketing Explosion (Hello Kitty, Pokemon)
-Remember Darren on Bewitched?


19) Disco (The 1970s)
-The Night Lifestyle
-The Bee Gees
-Cocaine
-Studio 54


18) The Situation Comedy


17) The Video Revolution (1970-2000)


16) The Nickelodeon Boom (1905-7)


15) The Culture/Class/Race/Sex Revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s
-Civil Rights Movement
-Feminist Movement
-War Protests
-Marijuana
-Long Hair


14) The Gramophone/Record Making/Tin Pan Alley Songwriters


13) Big Band and Swing
-And the Crooners During That Time and Following…Bing Crosby,
Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra
-And What about the Ladies? Kay Starr? Jo Stafford? Doris Day?


12) Fast-food Restaurants


11) Cable Television
-The Channel Explosion of the 1990s
-Satellite Dishes


10) The Jazz Age
-Jazz and Blues Influences on Music
-Speakeasies and Gin Joints and Mobs and Prohibition
-F. Scott Fitzgerald and, of course, Zelda
-The Harlem Renaissance


9) The Development of "Hollywood" and the "Cult" of the "Star"
-Starting with the Silent Film
-Polished Up in the Fifties with Figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn
Monroe


8) The Love Affair with Cars
-What about That Man Named Ford and His Assembly Line?


7) The Proliferation of Professional Sports
-MLB, NBA, NFL, Wrestling, Nascar etc.
-And Finally...Women's Professional Sports


6) The Personal Computer and the Internet


5) The Rise of Radio
-From Serials to Live Music Shows to Rock
-DJs!


4) The Sexual Revolution
-Mini Skirts
-Helen Gurley Brown and Cosmopolitan
-The Birth Control Pill
-Pornography (Especially Playboy and Hustler)
-Boob Jobs
-Strip Clubs


3) Feature Length Films
-Who Was That D. W. Griffeth Anyway?


2) The Advent of Rock and Roll
-1950s Motown...Chuck Berry, Little Richard (Black Impact on Music Still Lives Today with Rap and Hip-Hop)
-Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly etc.
-1960s British Invasion (From the Beatles to the Rolling Stones)
-The American Counter with Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock etc.

...And the Most Important Moment in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture History (Drumroll Please)...


1) The Invention of Television　


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