Developing Practice
Here are my notes from reading "Design after Dark, the story of danceflor style" by Cynthia Rose.
Punk and Bolshevik Classicism
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| left: ID magazine of street fashion, right: example of Bolshevik design conventions |
Bolshevism
Soviet style Symbols: hammer and sickle badges, Dr.Zhivago hats, Heroes of the people- Marx, Lennin, Russian inspired: figures such as Gagarin, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Social and Political values:
To show liberation, angst against social disarray of 1970's under Margaret Thatcher.
Pirate radio/DJ’s Underground illicit voices-“black music” (banned music) A voice to be heard and seen. 1989. It was so popular it changed British broadcasting law to legalise it. A act of Rebellion
“use of urban landscape and its contents to subvert (or antagonise) the established order, ruled by the bestselling graphics of punk)"
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| The sleeve was controversial for defacing the image of the queen |
Pirate radio/DJ’s Underground illicit voices-“black music” (banned music) A voice to be heard and seen. 1989, so popular it changed british broadcasting law. Rebellion- giving people a VOICE.
Thunderjockeys “There’s only this money- we have to use cheap photographers, we have to use cheap type” inteprid improvisation
Iconic graphic of the 1970's were the Sex Pistols sleeve for "God Save The Queen" by Jamie Reid
Funk: the British Black music scene
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| Straight no chaser was a popular Funk magazine |
1988, british black music scene= british jazz mag “Straight no Chaser”- designed exclusively on the MAC computer.
Known stars such as James Brown
Guerilla sounds, guerilla design, guerilla entertainments
Social and Political Values
Uniting Britons of different classes, how to be social together outside the confides of work
Establish a Community: Brought people together under the common denominator: music regardless of social background and race.
Community: brought people together under the common denominator: music regardless of social background and race.
Turntable expertise, Black origins- hard labour, Freedom of expression
Impact
Music became less controlled, take pride in their own sound and to be CREATIVE,
1990 legislation of KISS-FM (pirate station)
The magazine for the funk scene was "The Wire" and "Straight No Chaser"
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| The wire still exists today. |
