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The white South has voted Republican at the presidential level since the 1950s and at the state and local level since the 1990s. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan rejuvenated the conservative Republican ideology, with tax cuts, greatly increased defense spending, deregulation, a policy of rolling back communism, a greatly strengthened ...
After Reagan's election as U.S. president in 1980, many pop music artists responded in their song lyrics. In 1981, "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" by British synth-poppers Heaven 17 slammed UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher along with Reagan, denouncing the leaders' policies as tending toward racism and fascism. [32]
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers. The committee was founded by four women known as the ...
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United
In hip hop music, political hip hop, or political rap, is a form developed in the 1980s, inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. Public Enemy were the first political hip hop group to gain commercial success. [1]
publishes weekly conservative videos which have garnered over 2 billion total views [461] Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation: founded in 1970 gives millions of dollars to conservative organizations [141] Scaife Foundations: founded in 2014 financially supports Republican-leaning think tanks [462] [455] Searle Freedom Trust: founded in 1998
OPINION: My new podcast "Being Black: The ’80s" is about Black political issues and music in an incredible decade. The post ‘Being Black: The ’80s’ is my new podcast about Black music and ...
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.