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09 Sep 2009
These two videos paint a picture of a scene that was truly original, grimy, fresh, and exciting. An era that still echoes through popular culture today. It's difficult to imagine that any scene today (from the Western world anyway) will ever be looked back at like this. I was at the Electric Picnic at the weekend, which featured the gamut of today's popular culture scenes, from music to art to literature to politics, and while I loved it and had an amazing time, nothing there came anywhere close to the kind of freshness and excitement of the burgeoning hip-hop scene represented in these videos. Nostalgia is the overwhelming attribute of today's scenes. Nothing is new. The biggest acts at the Picnic were either bands that have been around for decades (Chic, ABC, Madness etc) or new bands that are retreading old ground (Florence And The Machine etc). They may be doing it well, and I'm buying the records too, but it's not new. Have we actually come to the end of popular culture? Or is it just on hiatus, waiting for a new explosion?
The fist clip is an episode of The Tube from 1983 where they explore the New York night - breakdancing, scratching, drugs, Danceteria, Klaus Nomi and more.
The second clip is an extended trailer for a feature documentary about Patti Astor's 'Fun' gallery, which was the epicenter of the East Village art scene, with Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring etc, and how it intersected with the new music and dance scenes - rap, hip-hop and breakdancing.
(via TheWowReport)
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