Vivienne Westwood Vivienne Isabel Swire was born in Derbyshire on 8th April 1941 to Gordon and Dora Swire who were greengrocers. She left grammar school aged 16 and moved to London with her family. There Vivienne attended Harrow Art School and studied fashion and silversmithing‚ but left after one term quoting “I didn’t know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world”. I think this is a very normal statement for an artist to make as all of them have had doubts
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Among her many monikers‚ Patti Smith has most often been called the “godmother of punk.” Despite resisting the label‚ she has had a wide-ranging influence on punk‚ post-punk‚ alternative‚ and mainstream rock artists including U2‚ The Smiths‚ REM‚ Garbage‚ Sleater-Kinney‚ Bruce Springsteen‚ and Madonna. Her seminal first album‚ Horses‚ was released in 1975 and began a career that would lead to her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patti Smith group up largely in New Jersey and received a
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Little Richard’s Influence on Rock and Roll Rock and roll music emerged as a part of American teen culture during the notably conservative time period in the country’s history which shortly followed the traumatic events of World War II. Being that the genre’s target audience was white teenagers‚ many Americans- already overwhelmed and on-edge due to the anti-communist movement inspired by the Cold War- were apprehensive about the influence that this up-and-coming style of music might have on their
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that show a systematic hostility to the dominant culture are sometimes described as countercultures The punk subculture‚ which centres on punk rock music‚ includes a diverse array of ideologies‚ fashions and forms of expression‚ including visual art‚ dance‚ literature and film. The subculture is largely characterized by anti-establishment views and the promotion of individual freedom. The punk subculture emerged in the United Kingdom‚ Australia‚ and the United States in the mid-1970s A rave (from
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THE BIRTH OF ROCK n’ ROLL - A CASE OF RACIAL CONFLICT The term rock ‘n’ roll has been traced back as far as the 1920s in black music‚ but it became an accepted when disc jockey Alan Freed began used it to describe the character of the rhythm and blues he played on his radio program in the mid-‘50s. The term “Rockin’ and Rollin” were originally used as slang for sex‚ in black pop music. However‚ it went on to become the name for a new‚ salacious musical genre. Innovation in audio technology‚ new
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enormously. All the other punk bands look to these guys and marvel at how much they are defending their beliefs. For example‚ a person is watching his or her favorite band play and he or she begins to talk of how great Anti-Flag is. Immediately one could pick up on that and want to get to know more about Anti-Flag. It is a chain reaction of learning about other bands through bands that he or she already knows. If Anti-Flag are respected by bands that were the original punk-rockers such as Bad Religion
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Philosophy of Daft Punk (A Brief Dissertation) We were having a discussion about the philosophy or "message" of Daft Punk’s body of work in the chat a few days ago‚ and this post a follow-up to that discussion. I think there is a philosophy to just about everything and surely you can’t deny the obvious social commentary in the Prime Time Of Your Life video. I don’t mean to speculate about whether this philosophy is conscious and their goal is to proselytize us to it or whether it’s unconscious
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Meanwhile‚ psychedelic rock reflected the hippie movement of the late 1960’s which spread from the West Coast of the United States to the rest of the country‚ and eventually‚ to Europe (O’Brien n.p.). In relation to the rampant use of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) was the rise of the “hippie movement”. This movement was a kind of counterculture at that time which celebrated the ideals of peace and spiritual happiness through irenic gatherings (Scaruffi n.p.). The “hippies” were rebels
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When I think of term rock and roll‚ I remember watching MTV and seeing Axel Rose scream into the microphone with his whinny voice the lyrics of “Paradise City” while dancing across the stage in his ridiculous outfits. My father would nostalgically reminisce of the epic guitar solos of the Eagles‚ Don Felder. My father being a teenager during the height of the rock music era afforded him certain opportunities to see the big hair bands perform live during their prime. When I was still a boy‚ he would
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is mainly based on rock music. It is published by Bauer Consumer Media in the United Kingdom. The magazine’s name is onomatopoeic and refers to the noise made when playing a power chord on an electrical guitar. The target audience for this magazine would first and foremost be teenagers (mainly those 16+) and also those in their 20’s. Some of its viewers would be approximately in their 30’s (the same age as the people featured in the magazine). Or simply‚ people who admire rock and loud music as the
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