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NY77: The coolest year in hell
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| Uncle ED |
Anyone watch this documentry on VH1? Thought it was very good. Really set the stage for today.
I remember that summer with the blackout, lol
Yet out of the chaos, emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered. Hip Hop was emerging from the South Bronx, punk music was emerging from the lower eastside, and disco was emerging from Queens and midtown Manhattan. Elaborate, finely crafted graffiti art decorated the subway cars. Break-dancers danced in the streets. There was a huge sexual liberation with sex clubs and a burgeoning porn industry. In the beginning of the year, the world was not paying attention, and most of this activity existed in its own underground bubble. Yet by the end of 1977 all of this artistic expression was about to become part of mainstream America and would remain popular for generations to come. Maybe it would never again be this independent expression, not invented for money or fame, but the need to rebel against the mayhem around them. Maybe it would go on to be commercialized and sterilized for massive consumption. Maybe it would never again be this unique |
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| Scoops |
| The Bronx is Burnin' |
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| Konijn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Uncle ED
and disco was emerging from Queens and midtown Manhattan. |
disco was on its way out the door by '77. '77-'78 was its mainstream peak (saturday night fever) and also the start of its rapid and ignominious decline. |
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| Fibonacci |
| hip hop clubs in the bronx and sex clubs - as sweet as std tests are, i consider myself luckily i was still just a bottle of booze on a store shelf at this point. |
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| StarSoprano426 |
| There was an article in the Times today along those lines. But it was focused more on the negative stuff like SOS and the economy and whatnot. |
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| Uncle ED |
| It was cool to see how Hip-hop started,etc...that year really was unreal...son of sam, yankees, blackouts, fires, drugs, studio 54,etc... |
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| infectedskills |
| I've seen it its really good every time I see the part about the graff writers it brings me back to my days in h.s wondering the subway at like 12 - 4 in the morning hoping not to get caught by the nypd graffiti division aka the vandal squad.. Used to roam the E,F,A,J,7,N,R,V subway line doing throw up's of the name infect mind and runing with this crew called ince insane nerotic criminals |
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