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  1. 1970s

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    Culturally, the decade saw a retreat from the overt revolutionary fervor of the 1960s into modes of ironic detachment and material accumulation. Music moved away from anthemic rock toward highly produced, rhythmically repetitive forms, such as the emergence of disco , which prioritized collective, structured movement over individual expression. This reliance on rhythmic repetition is theorized by cultural semioticians to be a subconscious response to the era's economic unce…