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Watch the First Two Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast
MTV's 1981 broadcast was advertised to be as important as the moon landing.
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Ted Mills
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Open Culture
on
August 6, 2021
I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction
How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War.
by
Tom Nichols
via
The Atlantic
on
May 8, 2021
Time to Face Reality
Charting the history of a TV phenomenon.
by
A. S. Hamrah
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Bookforum
on
July 2, 2024
How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV
The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.
by
Emily Nussbaum
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The New Yorker
on
June 15, 2024
The Song of the Summer Is Actually the Song of 1982
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.
by
Dan Charnas
via
Slate
on
June 4, 2024
partner
Who Gets to Regulate #*%&? Free Speech in Popular Culture
When speech offends, who decides where boundaries should be drawn?
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Retro Report
on
January 18, 2024
We Got the Beat
How The Go-Go’s emerged from the LA punk scene in the late ’70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album.
by
Lisa Whittington-Hill
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Longreads
on
January 16, 2024
The Women Who Built Grunge
Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects.
by
Lisa Whittington-Hill
via
Longreads
on
June 29, 2022
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Grammys Have Little Credibility in the Hip-Hop Community
While the awards have recognized achievements in rap, Black artists continue to face musical segregation.
by
A. D. Carson
via
Made by History
on
April 10, 2022
Meet the YouTubers Determined to Find Lost Media
New media meets old.
by
Brendan Bell
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The Verge
on
September 16, 2021
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Shamed Over Sex, a Generation Confronts the Past
Former followers of an evangelical “purity” movement that promoted a strict view of abstinence are grappling with aftershocks.
via
Retro Report
on
April 6, 2021
The Emergence Of Gangsta Rap
A review of "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America."
by
Katherine Rye Jewell
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The Metropole
on
March 30, 2021
The Rise and Fall of Vanilla Ice, As Told by Vanilla Ice
Thirty years after "Ice Ice Baby," Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony.
by
Jeff Weiss
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The Ringer
on
October 6, 2020
How KRS-One’s ‘Sound of Da Police’ Went From Anti-Cop Anthem to Theme Song and Back Again
The 1993 song reinvigorated the rap legend’s career — and against all odds became a Hollywood (and police) favorite
by
Eric Ducker
via
Medium
on
July 25, 2020
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The Explicit Anthem of Anti-Racist Protest
Rap group N.W.A. understood vulgarity and controversy were necessary to draw attention to police brutality.
by
Felicia Angeja Viator
via
Made by History
on
June 22, 2020
“Like Sonny Liston”: An Appreciation of Tom Petty
Patterson Hood argues that Tom Petty achieved perfection in his songwriting... time and time again.
by
Patterson Hood
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
October 6, 2017
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