University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 11-30-2016 Nothin' But a Good Time: Hair Metal, Conservatism, and the End of the Cold War in the 1980s Chelsea Anne Watts University of South Florida,
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[email protected]. Nothin’ But a Good Time: Hair Metal, Conservatism and the End of the Cold War in the 1980s by Chelsea Anne Watts A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: David K. Johnson, Ph.D. K. Stephen Prince, Ph.D. Julia F. Irwin, Ph.D. Andrew S. Berish, Ph.D. Date of Approval: November 21, 2016 Keywords: Gender, Capitalism, Transnational, Rock Music Copyright © 2016, Chelsea Anne Watts Acknowledgements In 2010 I enrolled in a graduate seminar on American culture in the 1980s. At the time I was a master’s student, and I had no idea that my term paper on hair metal would one day become the topic of my doctoral dissertation.