The 60's and Today's Popular Culture
In the 1960s, there was a lot of social movement that happened. There was the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, Counterculture Movement, the Gender Equality Movement and a lot more. All of these social movement have a song, photograph, and/or event that symbolize the larger social movement. For the Vietnam War, there was the song by Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick, “I Say A Little Prayer for You”. Also, Huynch Cong (Nick) Ut's photograph, The Terror of War: Children on Route 1 near Trang Bang, aka “napalm girl”. For the Civil Rights Movement, there was the March in Selma. The song by Bacharach and Warwick, photograph by Cong, and the event, March in Selma, have a quality for the social movements and been carried down through today's popular culture.
The song “I Say A Little Prayer for You” by Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick was a song for a wife to sing to her husband who was in the Vietnam War. The singer thinks about her husband or boyfriend by the time
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she wakes up in the morning to the time she goes to bed at night. Warwick is not just think about him, she is prying for his safety. Bacharach wrote, “Forever, and ever, you'll stay in my heart and I will love you. Forever, and ever we never will part. Oh, how I'll love you. Together, forever, that's how it must be to live without you. Would only mean heartbreak for me,” (I Say A Little Prayer for You). The singer is saying that if he does not return home safe, she will only be in heartbreak because she loves him so much and she also will. It is a joyful song and explains true love for a wife to her husband or boyfriend that was fighting in the Vietnam war, (Wiser). The song “I Say A Little Prayer for You” have been carried down through today's popular culture by being sang by a lot different people.
One of the artists who sang the song was Aretha Franklin; a year after Warwick's sang it. Carl Wiser says, “Burt Bacharach has said that he likes he likes Aretha's Version the best,” (Wiser). Bacharach says “much better than the cut I did with Dionne,” (Songs Facts). Other artists are Glen Campbell and Anne Murray. Another recording of the song is by Sergio Mendes. It also was in Mike Myers' movie Austin Powers, (Biography.com). In 1997, Diana King did cover for Julia Roberts' movie My Best Friend's Wedding, (Wiser). This is a great song for any wedding and/or anniversary. Everyone can sing it for anyone, even for people who is not in the military. It also can be sang by a boy to his wives or girlfriend who is in the military. Everyone can joy the song “I Say A Little Prayer for You” and sing it to whoever they
love. The photo by Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut, The Terror of War: Children on Route 1 near Trang Bang aka “napalm girl”, was taking for the Vietnam War of the napalm attack on June 8, 1972. In the photo there is a nine year old girl running trows Ut with her clothes off. The girl, the other children, and the soldiers in the photo are running from the burning Vietnamese village. This girl is running naked because the napalm melted her clothes and was on her skin was like jellied lava, (The Associated Press). The book Current Issues and Ending Questions by Sylvan Barnet says, “The influence of this particular photograph cannot be measured, but it is widely felt to have plated a substantial role in increasing public pressure to end the Vietnam War,” (146). The Fact that “Photograph can evoke powerful emotions and shape the way the public understand the world and interprets events,” (Digital History), helped end the Vietnam war for the Americans. Ut was twenty-one at the time of the photograph was taken. After the photo was taken, he drove the little girl, Kim Phuc, to the hospital and demanded that she will be treated. After thirteen months after the bombing, she was allowed to leave the hospital. In her teens, Phuc was accepted to medical school to pursue her dream. Daily News Says, “She was forced to quit college and return to her home province, where she was trotted out to meet foreign journalists,” (The Associated Press). Then, Phuc tried to find her life again. In 1992, she married Bui Huy Toan. When she contacted Ut to tell him her journey, he encourage her to tell her story about how she was a survivor of the Vietnam War and that she was free from all the journalists. In July 15, 2007, Phuc explain how she was able to find forgiveness at the Liberty Baptist Church in Newport Beach, California. Now the she is fifty-two years old and living her life with her two kids and her husband. The event, March in Selma, was a peaceful march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the African American to get the right to vote. In March 1965, Martin Luther King Jr led the march in Selma Alabama. The bridge connects Selma to Montgomery. The marchers got as far as Edmund Pettus Bridge were only six blocks “where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas,” (Selma to Montgomery March). That brought they back to Selma. On March 20, 2015, Martin Luther King Jr Did to talk the the president before the march into Montgomery and the president did send “1,000 military policemen and 2,000 Army troops to escort the march from Selma,” (Rick Harmon). The National Park Service says, “On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” (Selma to Montgomery March). Today, there is a movie about the March in Selma called Selma. Made in 2014 by Bennett Miller. It tells the true story about the march and how “Martin Luther King Jr led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition,” (Miss W. J. Mcdermott). It goes up to when President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965; for the larger social movement, Civil Rights Movement. In the 1960, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement and more happen. Each of these social movement have a song, photograph and an event that happen during these social movement. For the Vietnam War was the song, “I Say A Little Prayer for You” by Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick. Also the Photograph, The Terror of War: Children on Route 1 near Trang Bang aka “napalm girl” by Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut. For the Civil Rights Movement was the event, March in Selma. Each of these have been carried down through today's popular culture. ********************************************************** The song by Burt Bacharach symbolize to me that a wife is getting ready for her husband that is a soldier in the military. He is fighting in the Vietnam War and she is prying for safe return home. I have not heard of this song before, but I liked the upbeat music it has. I also have not seen the photograph by Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut. It looks like in the photo that the kids are getting taken from their homes and going somewhere that they not going to like. The soldiers behind the kids looks like they do not care about them. It also looks like it could been taking from World War II. The March in Selma I have heard of it before and have seen the movie, Selma. I watch it from my history class in high school. Like the idea of a peace walk. I think that we should have more peace walks instead of war.
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