Kraftwerk Essays

The Seventies The seventies commenced with the death of several iconic musicians, as well as the death of many popular bands. In 1970, arguably the most successful band of all time, The Beatles, disbanded. By the beginning of 1975, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington, and Nick Drake were all dead. Despite the passing of many symbolic artists, this era is still considered to be one of the finest, due to the emergence of numerous new artists that redefined the genre of music they were associated

Huge hair lacquered and heels high, they danced to Kraftwerk and discovered a world away from their usual suburbia. One where clothing signified sexuality. This community was a life line ‘because clothing, along with adornment and demeanour’ is ‘a primary method of identification for and of gay men’ (Cole

Raf Simons was born in a small industrial town in Belgium in 1968. He grew up in a poor family, his mother was a house cleaner and his father was an army night watcher. The surrounding was not creative at all, that is why Simons chose industrial design as his career. In 1991 he was graduated in Industrial Design and Furniture Design and started to work as a furniture designer. At that time, one of his colleagues Walter Van Beirendonck invited him to Paris Fashion Week, where young Raf was affected

James Jewel Osterberg, who is better known as the stage name Iggy Pop, was born in in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947. He formed his first band in the early 1960s and went through several groups and musical styles. Later, he formed the Psychedelic Stooges in 1967, a band that only actived in couple years. Their music was nothing like anyone else at that time period, which is more experimental to the people. Osterberg became the band's lead singer and soon renamed himself Iggy Pop. During live

Punk scene was not about music, but about showing (a)political positions. As opposed to krautrock scene, where looks were never a concern (exception being Kraftwerk), punk scene’s dress code was already a way of showing where they stood facing the constraints imposed by society. Probably the most extremist way of shocking others was the use of swastikas attached to their clothes trying to defy the eldest, who

INTRODUCTION Have how listening to ABBA, Chic, Earth Wind and Fire and other 70s tune? If you have listen, do you know what genre it is? Let me tell you it was “Disco”. Disco is genre that was popular around 1970s and containing the elements of Funk, Soul, Pop, Salsa and Psychedelic. The term “Disco” is derived from discotheque and its initial audience are from the African American, Italian American, Latino and Psychedelic communities around New York City and Philadelphia around 1970s. In New York

Cultural Impact of Electronic Dance Music Versus Hip-Hop in America for the Millennial Generation By: April Rushin Hip-hop and Electronic Dance Music, abbreviated as EDM, are two musical genres that define the popular American millennial youth culture today. While both of these popular musical genres of today are mutated offspring’s of the original genres, they share extremely familiar roots. Both hip-hop and EDM hold their roots in Jamaica in the late 20th century and are heavily influenced