1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE 70'S TIME
The Arab-Israeli conflict and the final stage of the Vietnam War dominate most of the political life of the 1970s. The oil market is shaken by the provisions of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries that drag countries down. industrialized to a crisis in the energy sector and therefore to the entire industry and society. There is a blockage in the supply of oil and now it is the producing nations that set fuel prices. It is also the decade of the rise of terrorism, with extreme left groups such as Action Directe, RAF, the Red Brigades, ETA, GRAPO, the Japanese Red Army, the Khmer Rouge or Islamic terrorist groups such as the Islamic Jihad. Terrorists like Carlos the Jackal became very famous. Some governments responded to terrorism by applying state terrorism.
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2. POPULAR GENRES
The era of the '70s is characterized by the birth and development of new musical movements such as punk, disco music,personal pop, heavy metal, Latin rock, reggae, urban rock, techno pop, glam rock, and symphonic rock. Its main exponents were Yes, Genesis, and Pink Floyd.
3. POPULAR ARTISTS
LED ZEPPELIN: was a British rock group founded in London in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page, who had belonged to The Yardbirds.
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RAMONES: The Ramones were a punk band formed in Forest Hills, in the district of Queens (New York, United States) in 1974
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ABBA: ABBA is a Swedish pop music group, consisting of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad.
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