DANC 0831 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gerome Ragni, Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away
8 Apr 2020
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Hair - 1979 film; 1968 broadway musical. Choreography by twyla tharp (modern dancer) - come fly away (w. sinatra - Dancers from her dance company (tt dance foundation) Authors - gerome ragni, james rado started research in 1965. Hippies - coined by michael fallon in sf examiner article (1965) Tour buses observed haight-ashbury district to see weirdos in neighborhood. Postmodern youth - coined by kenniston; identify only with people in generation. Passions: (continuous) change, fluidity, pacifism, ambivalence towards technology. Rebelled - economic, religious, sexual values of previous generations; Military advisors sent to vietnam - economic, military aid to anti-communist government (1950) Us agrees to train south vietnamese troops (1955) Jfk sends more help to combat vietcong guerrillas - new equipment, military personnel (1961) Freedom summer - registering black voters in south (1964) Withdrawal of troops from vietnam (1975) - volunteers (70% of casualties), those who were drafted. Cra (1964) - forbad discrimination in employment.
