Kategorie: music
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In this town I know myself.
Hildegard Knef, In dieser Stadt, 1966 /// Empty, colorful cigarette boxes / and crumpled butter bread paper / on the way to school, that we daily went, / I see it before my eyes, like it was today; / and we picked from the patch in front of the station / the birthday bouquet for…
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Beat Street.
Harry Belafonte interview on producing “Beat Street” movie about early 80s New York City hip hop culture. Includes brief „Beat Street“ clips. It is widely regarded as the best film about the 80s breakdancing scene. (1984).
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Music and the City.
The Walkman turned 40 in 2019 — and each of us got his/her own soundtrack to the city. » More and more people where discovering that about the only spot they’ve got is between their ears.« Read more about listening to music has totally changed over the years »»
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Wasteland to dancefloor.
»Movement: From wasteland to dancefloor, 1984-1989«. Through the sublime period shots of Yoshi Omori and the words of Marc Boudet and Jay One Ramier, Mouvement is a poignant testimony of the first hours of glory of Parisian Hip-Hop and an exceptional archive of the graffiti scene of the early 80s. read more»»
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Alors on danse.
Breaking, Bboying – Krump, Electro Dance, House? Litefeet, Waacking? Punking, Voguing, Locking? Tutting, Shuffling? Videos taken during BOMA MUTU BATTLE DE DANSE at Le 6b, Saint Denis, April 9, 2023 A brief overview of some of the dance styles you mentioned put together by AI Chat GPT: Breaking/Bboying: Breaking originated in the Bronx in the…
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Birdman.
Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu originally conceived the film as a comedy filmed in a single shot set in a theatre following the character of Riggan Thomson, a faded actor famous for playing a superhero named Birdman in a film trilogy from 1989 to 1992. While the film used camera tricks and illusion to make…
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Nouveau Western.
[…] Le western moderne est installé dans le secteur // Quand la ville dort, les trains ne sifflent pas. […] Mais Harry à Paris n’a pas eu de chance // On le stoppe sur le périph‘ avec sa diligence // Parfois la vie ressemble à une balle perdue // Dans le système moderne se noie…
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The birth of hip-hop.
It was 11 August 1973 and Cindy Campbell was throwing a back to school party. She had asked her brother to DJ the event, which would be held in the recreation room of their building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Cindy planned to charge admission at the door — a quarter for girls,…
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Cycling the Frame.
In 1988 Tilda Swinton hopped on her bike to trace the 160 km Western radius of the Berlin Wall with friend and filmmaker Cynthia Beatt for Cycling the Frame. The quiet indie film juxtaposes the two countries by showing a carefree and even playful West Berlin against the nearly 12-ft high concrete barrier, policed by…
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Rockit.
“I do what I want to do. I’m interested in people, I’m interested in music, I’m interested in learning about music and learning about myself,” Hancock told NME in 1983. His musical curiosity has led him through classical music, jazz, electronic music, rock, funk, disco and hip-hop. His 1983 hit single, “Rockit” not only earned…
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Fremd im eigenen Land.
Advanced Chemistry was a hip-hop crew from Heidelberg, Germany, founded in 1987 and considered one of the pioneers of German hip-hop. They made their breakthrough with the single »Foreigner in my own country« released in 1992.
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Mapping.
One of the most inspring artists for painting art-related timelines and mappings about music, art, cities or history for us is the American artist Ward Shelly »»
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لا شيء يزعجني مع دنغل
Video by Middle Eastern Rapper The Synaptik. With Dancer & Choreographer Amina Abuelghar. more about The Synaptic»» more about Amina Abuelghar »»
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Posse 501.
The Posse 501 was a French hip-hop collective from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges / Val-de-Marne. Over the years, it brought together rappers such as Soon E MC, Strike, Bambi Cruz and Ménélik, but also DJs and composers such as DJ Seeq and Jimmy Jay, as well as the rapper and singer Melaaz, and several dancers and graffiti artists.…
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First Rap ever.
»The song ‚Noah‘ by the American music group The Jubalaires, which was active in the 1940s and 1950s, is known as the first rap song in history.«
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Ca peut plus dure.
Video clip by KASH Leone feat Dj RAGE in support of the workers of PSA of Aulnay sous Bois in fight against the closing of their factory.
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Grands Ensembles.
Mc Solaar: Ils s’étaient rencontrés sur les bancs d’l’écoleEntre une heure de colle, de maths ou un cours d’espagnolC’était une fille fun, fana de footballLui ne craignait pas les balles, c’était le goalCe qu’il lui promettait c’était des ballades en CorvettePour l’instant en survêt‘, il volait des mobylettesMais entre eux c’était toujours complicitéEscale sur un…
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Massive Walk
The accompanying music video to the song »Unfinished Sympathy« by Massive Attack (directed by Baillie Walsh) was a single continuous shot of the singer Shara Nelson walking through a Los Angeles neighbourhood, oblivious to her surroundings.
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Teneriffa.
Düsseldorf Düsterboys. Walking through Essen.
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Orleans. Colombes.
»Orleans« David Crosby, Graham Nash»Colombes« by iI était une fois. The title of the song actually is LE CARILLON DE VENDÔME or LES CLOCHES DE VENDÔME and it still is in France a short children’s song that kids learn in primary school. It dates back to the 15th century and is the oldest known French…
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Coupe Decale.
Coupé-décalé music burst onto the scene in a war-torn Côte d’Ivoire and is all about having a good time and a flash lifestyle. In Noushi, the language invented by street kids in Côte d’Ivoire, “coupé-décalé” means to “get rich quick by any means and then do a runner”. Under DJ Jacob, who is credited with…
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Fashion.
How cultural and social movements have changed the way we dress. »The explosion of hip-hop and rap (and the subsequent airing of such music videos on MTV) validated a maximalist mode of dressing. Dapper Dan of Harlem minted screaming-loud ‘knocked-up’ coats and tracksuits with Louis Vuitton and Gucci logos all over them.« read more»» photo…
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Le Monde de Demain.
An arte-series about the beginnings of French hip-hop in the 1980s recounted through the birth of the group NTM and the career of the DJ Dee Nasty and the graffiti artist Lady V.
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Hip-hop-museum.
»Anchored in the birthplace of the culture, the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx celebrates and preserves the history of local and global Hip Hop to inspire, empower, and promote understanding«, a still very small place including over 30,000 objects. You also find a 1986-1990 timeline on their websiste more »» A lot of…
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Street, Art, Life.
In a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the arts in 2007, guest curator Lydia Yee historicizes the street as subject and stage, a space onto which artists project their shifting visions of public life. read»»
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Banlieueconnexion.
A website»» about music and artists from the French banlieue including an extensive collection of links and information.
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Keny Arkana.
Onora Dafor, professionally known by her stage name Keny Arkana, is an Argentine-French rapper who is active in the alter-globalization and civil disobedience movements. In 2004 she founded a music collective called La Rage du peuple [fr], in the neighborhood of Noailles, Marseille.
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Gut. Echt.
Deichkind is a German electropunk band formed in Hamburg in 1997. In this video they are collaborationg with German actor Lars Eidinger.