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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/8/2021
I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction – Teaching the Cold War with Classic Music Videos
by Tom Nichols
Rock videos from the early days of MTV are a surprisingly effective tool for explaining the nuclear fear of the Cold War era to students who never experienced it.
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SOURCE: The Root
3-10-13
Tamara Palmer: How the 'Billie Jean' Video Changed MTV
Tamara Palmer is a San Francisco-based freelance writer and the author of Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop. Follow her on Twitter. (The Root) -- "Billie Jean," who was not Michael Jackson's lover, is turning 30 -- or at least her video is, and it's an important anniversary in the evolution of both black music's visual expression and America's iconic music network. On March 10, 1983, MTV played "Billie Jean" for the first time and forever changed the course of its music programming in the process.
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