Tuesday, September 07, 2010

It's a Man's World - on the cusp of the sixties

It's a Man's World - TV series 1962-63: "It's a Man's World was 'ahead of its time': it depicted the restlessness, idealism, and increasing iconoclasm that began to emerge among American youth during the early 1960s.[6] Broadcast at the family hour, It's a Man's World did not shy from the themes of premarital sex, feminism, and the gulf between adults and adolescents, which began to be known as the generation gap. The program coincided with the Cuban Missile Crisis, civil rights disputes, and the emergence of protest singer Bob Dylan."

Airing from September 17, 1962, to January 28, 1963, this show stood on the faultline between segregated, post-war America, and an integrating, multi-cultural, new-war America - careening wildly, yet unswervingly on a path into a tumultuous, unstoppable sixties.

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