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  • "Fade to Grey": The forgotten history of the British New Romantic Movement

    Author(s)
    Bennett, Andy
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Bennett, Andy A.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    During the early 1980s, a new popular music and youth cultural phenomenon emerged from the austerity of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. Combining a Glam aesthetic with Disco, Funk, and Synth-Pop, New Romantic, as this phenomenon came to be known, was to become the platform for a new generation of artists of which Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Visage, and Ultravox were to become the most well-known, established, and commercially successful examples. If New Romantic was musically eclectic, this was matched by the visual style of its per-formers and audience. While Hebdige (1979) suggests that Punk drew on the rep-ertoire of youth ...
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    During the early 1980s, a new popular music and youth cultural phenomenon emerged from the austerity of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. Combining a Glam aesthetic with Disco, Funk, and Synth-Pop, New Romantic, as this phenomenon came to be known, was to become the platform for a new generation of artists of which Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Visage, and Ultravox were to become the most well-known, established, and commercially successful examples. If New Romantic was musically eclectic, this was matched by the visual style of its per-formers and audience. While Hebdige (1979) suggests that Punk drew on the rep-ertoire of youth cultural style from previous generations of youth, New Romantic carried on this trend, taking stylistic inspiration from Punk and Glam rock, among a number of other youth cultural eras, while also mining the stylistic trends of European history and Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 1950s.
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    Book Title
    Lost Histories of Youth Culture (Mediated Youth Series)
    Volume
    22
    Publisher URI
    https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781453914885/9781453914885.00005.xml
    Subject
    British History
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/141687
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