User:Ytujav/New wave music
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[edit]Cultural significance of New Wave music:
In the 80's, there was a lot of what you might call "macho music," hard rock of the 80's and later on grunge in the 90's (which would eventually be the "death" of New Wave). This means that New Wave music and the trends that it brought with it really brought some color and flavor to the 80's that seemed to be missing elsewhere. In hindsight you can see a lot of cultural importance here; Artists like Boy George, Marc Almond, David Bowie, and George Michael really helped to create visibility for the LGBTQ community in the 80's, adding a new sense of character and acceptance to the public's perception.
"The truth is, the new wave ’80s was a vibrant time when art and music collided — literally in the form of MTV. A generation of young people with hair the color of Froot Loops united in an effort to create something fresh" -Vivinetto[1]
"If you were an LGBT teen in 1984 on either side of the pond, you certainly had asymmetrical hair and wore thrift store cardigans. Like glam rock before it, new wave famously toyed with gender, and this time not only in the form of men wearing makeup. Sure, Boy George’s painted face shocked America, but let’s not forget the Eurythmics’s Annie Lennox dressed up as Elvis at the 1984 Grammy Awards. Androgyny, suddenly, was everywhere." -Vivinetto[1]
Androgyny was indeed everywhere. If you look in the right time and place you can actually see a pretty clear correlation between New Wave and more androgynous fashion trends. This established some real icons of this era within the worlds of fashion and music, such as Grace Jones for example (see image). These new fashion trends went hand in hand with the new production styles and instrumentations that brought forward the New Wave movement, with all this artistic progression it is no mystery as to why this movement/genre was dubbed "New Wave."
References
[edit]Gina Vivinetto (April 29th, 2014), Anywhere But Here: The Power of Place in '80s New Wave, Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/anywhere/[1]
Gary Friedman (July 8, 1984) Singer and model Grace Jones, portrait, 1984, Los Angeles Times
https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002shj0[2]
- ^ a b c "Anywhere But Here: The Power of Place in '80s New Wave". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
- ^ "Singer and model Grace Jones, portrait, 1984 - UCLA Library Digital Collections". digital.library.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-16.