In the late 1950s in one of the poorest cities in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) a subculture emerged.
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
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Making The Shining
17-year-old Vivian Kubrick captured priceless behind-the-scenes footage of one of the most notorious horror films of all time—The Shining.
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Iceage
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cI7WzCAq0&feature=share
New youth punk. Grinding guitars, dead beat vocals and bong hits.
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/// Studio A /// Presents: NEW SENSATIONS
If one’s first contact with cool—or one’s quick realization that one is probably, most likely uncool—represents the onset of The Teenage Years, then for me it happened one afternoon in 7th grade, the day the girl I’d been in love with since 2nd grade played Violent Femmes on her boombox after school.
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Jamming with Julia
httpv://youtu.be/bLlj_GeKniA
Do you know anything about hackers? Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyber space?
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The Jokers
In the spring of 1959 Bruce Davidson met a group of teenagers in Brooklyn who called themselves The Jokers.
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What Turns Tim Off?
httpv://youtu.be/O_A5G_y-SJQ
Girls that are built like Rambo. Nice.
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Chicana Flappers
Mexican American flappers standing in a park somewhere in Southern California, 1925.
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Underground Music Fanzines
I had no musical ability and I wasn’t old enough to be a college radio DJ.
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Gangs of Brooklyn
“Crew [of teen gang members] is shown in jiffy wagon as they were transported to Adolescent Court.”