ARHS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Red Hot Chili Peppers, High Art, David Lachapelle
19 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Hip hop economies nov. 22 (images: dj kool herc bronx c. 1974, ellen gallagher (from the deluxe series), 2004, album cover art for the message by grandmaster flash (1982) and vogue magazine feature on the get down for netflix 2016) It may be cold comfort to the survivors of hip-hop" s original school, but their style, taste, and culture still resonate decades later. The way they dressed, danced, spoke, and painted are still with us, sometimes submerged in commercial products, sometimes in things as obvious as the technics turntables that have remained icons three decades later. Now remixed and recycled, their ways of hearing and seeing once represented the potent and tangible shock of the new. Nelson george yes yes y"all: the experience music project oral history of hip- hop"s. Bronx, new york in the 1970"s lack of civil / municipal control (strikes /corruption) lack of employment = poverty / indifference / racism = sound system battles in parks.
