Disco, Barry White, and Starsky and Hutch
"Like the loop of Brady Bunch episodes ubiquitously playing across the 500-channel wasteland of cable TV, the decade of the 1970s is a specter haunting the American popular imagination. It is the specter of cheese culture, the jelly-headed amiability of smiley faces, white polyester three-piece suits, and the most recent return of the repressed, Starsky & Hutch, set to a mind-numbing soundtrack of Barry White, Kiss, and 'Stairway to Heaven.' Yet the arguably tackiest American decade is also when much of what is termed the postmodern condition began to emerge."So writes Vince Carducci in "Dazed and Confused: The 70's and the Postmodern Turn" in Logos Journal online.
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Monday, July 12, 2004
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