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Fall of the Berlin Wall

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1989

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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1991

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Spectralism

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1970s

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GRM, Paris

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1948

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SEM, Cologne

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1951

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Invention of the phonoautograph/’phonograph’

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1860’s/1880’s

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Invention of the Theramin (Soviet)

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1920 (Soviet Union)

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Invention of the Ondes Martenot

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1928 (Paris)

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First public film

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Paris, 1895

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First Talkie

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‘The Jazz Singer’ 1927

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Interwar period

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  • Weimar in ruins - Cabarets
  • French Neoclassicism
  • Cultural explosion in America (Jazz and Popular Music)
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Chinese musical censorship

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  • Education reforms in 1920s/30s push Western Art music
  • Death of Mao 1976 and cultural revolution in 60s/70s supress Western and Traditional music; renewed interest in revolutionary anthems
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Establishment of the Soviet Union

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1922; Stravinsky exiled

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Rise of small ethnic states

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Post WW1 dissolution of Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires

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Votes for Women (England)

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1918

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The Great Depression

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  • 1929-39
  • Spread Globally with effect lasting up until WW2
  • Stock market crash in America: millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels
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The Russian Revolution/Rise of Communism

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1917

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The ‘Roaring 20s’

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Social and economic mobility for the middle classes

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Start of the nuclear age

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  • Scientific development in 1930s

- First tested in 1945

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The Cold War

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  • 1947–1991
  • Soviet vs the US in struggle for global influence
  • Mutually assured destruction and Nuclear Weapons
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The Golden Age of Film

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early 1930s - mid 1950s

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The Renaissance

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  • Start modernist agenda - PROGRESS
  • Development of perspective painting and the printing press
  • Ear gave way to the eye
  • Development of strict musical form

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