MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vivienne Westwood, Autoamerican, The Diodes
12 Feb 2019
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Started on and around run-down queen street west. Major brands included the diodes, viletones, teenage head. Many of the groups are unrecorded, making the scene more authentic as. You had to be there" to appreciate it. B-girls sing backup vocals on blondie"s autoamerican. High school confidential by rough trade was the first lesbian themed top. The diodes opened for bands like talking heads and the dead boys, signed to cbs records, but their career never took off. Styles often encode an opposition to the dominant or hegemonic forms of culture associated with dominant groups - although often indirectly (longhurst) Punk style was a pastiche, purposely combined elements that did not fit". Vivianne westwood created the trash clothing aesthetic. Jamie reid defined sex pistols visual aesthetic (ransom note styled) Hebdige uses a semiotic approach to read" these cultural signs. Working class british youth immigrant jamaican population mixed in the east end of london.
