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<title><![CDATA[appreciating...]]></title>
<link>http://welcometolivinglab.com/2009/12/15/appreciating/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rachelwoodmassey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[my husband-to-be&#8217;s fascination and respect for the British sub-culture The Teddy Boys. I recei]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">my <a href="http://prjctns.wordpress.com/">husband-to-be&#8217;s </a> fascination and respect for the British sub-culture</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy">The Teddy Boys.</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">I received these beautiful <a href="http://www.benwatts.com/">Ben Watts</a> pics from him today and they&#8217;ve  got me remembering rainy nights at the <a href="http://www.tractortavern.com/">Tractor Tavern</a> filled up with oddball <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly">Rockabilly</a> bands sporting extra-long sideburns and bright socks&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">oh yeah &#8212; and <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#38;source=s_q&#38;hl=en&#38;geocode=&#38;q=london&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;hq=&#38;hnear=London,+United+Kingdom&#38;z=14">London.</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">More <a href="http://swipelife.com/2009/06/11/benn-watts-teddy-boys-gallery/">here.</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Photos : Ben Watts</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Spain]]></title>
<link>http://sherby57.co.uk/2009/11/23/spain/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sherby57</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I once went to Spain on holiday.  It&#8217;s not a particularly wacky story, but it&#8217;s true.  I went swimming and stuff.  Ate some ice creams etc.  It was lovely actually, thanks for asking. </p>
<p>Erm.  Some sausage rolls once went to the moon in a converted Lada?  Then they had a fight with some moon-chickens dressed as teddy boys?  They didn&#8217;t really, I just thought that was the kind of thing that you were expecting.  Did it work?  Did I meet your dizzying expectations?  You&#8217;re such a slave driver, actually. </p>
<p>In reality, I had a lot of fun on a lilo.  Nothing dodgy, just floating about and stuff.  You should try it sometime. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Street wear VS moda urbana.]]></title>
<link>http://streetwearswindle.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/street-wear-vs-moda-urbana/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>perroscallejeros</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El grupo musical Red Hot Chilli Peppers fueron unos pioneros colaboradores con la mítica marca de ro]]></description>
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<p><strong>Street wear</strong> is a distinctive style of fashion not to be confused with hip hop fashion. Its roots are in skateboarding and the &#8220;skatewear&#8221; of the 1980s.<sup>[1]</sup> It was later adopted as an urban fashion in Japan before growing to an international business.<sup>[1]</sup> An important element to the style is vintage or vintage-style sneakers.<sup>[2]</sup></p>
<div><em>Street wear is youth – it’s a retro 80s look inspired by the sneaker culture and hipsters on New York’s Lower East Side.” But, don’t confuse street wear with Urban fashion – looking like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is miles away from the dark denim, baggy clothing and white sneakers that defined the inner-city’s Urban look. “American Apparel, H&#38;M, Uniqlo – the whole [design concept] is based on street wear</em></div>
<p>—<cite>Devon Griffith, Head of Design at Massive Revolution</cite></p>
<p><em>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_wear</em></p>
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<p><strong>Street fashion</strong> is a term used to describe fashion that is considered to have emerged not from studios, but from the grassroots. Street fashion is generally associated with youth culture, and is most often seen in major urban centres. Japanese street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion movements at any given time. Mainstream fashion often appropriates street fashion trends as influences. Most major youth subcultures have had an associated street fashion. Examples include:</p>
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<li>Hippies (denim, T-shirts, long hair, flower power and psychedelic imagery, flared trousers)</li>
<li>Teddy Boys (drape jackets, drainpipe trousers, crepe shoes)</li>
<li>Punk fashion (ripped clothing, safety pins, bondage, provocative T-shirt slogans)</li>
<li>Skinheads (short-cropped hair, fitted jeans, Ben Sherman button-up shirts, Fred Perry polo shirts, Harrington jackets, Dr. Martens boots)</li>
<li>Gothic fashion (black clothing, heavy coats, big boots, makeup).</li>
<li>Hip hop fashion (501 Levis, ECKO, South Pole, Avirex, Sean Jean, NIKE)</li>
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<p><em>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fashion</em></p>
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<p><em><strong> </strong></em><a href="http://perroscallejeros.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/%e2%80%9cgetting-up-content-under-preure%e2%80%9d-por-gordi-alias-chunk1/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://perroscallejeros.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/marc-eckos-getting-up.jpg?w=300&#038;h=400" alt="http://perroscallejeros.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/marc-eckos-getting-up.jpg?w=300&#038;h=400" width="300" height="400" /></a><br />
<em>La diversificación empresarial de las marcas de ropa urbana no tiene límites&#8230; El millonario diseñador Mark Ecko por ejemplo edito hace unos años un videojuego de graffiti junto a la prestuigiona compañía Atari.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucile Chaufour, réalisatrice de "Violent Days"]]></title>
<link>http://versusmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/lucile-chaufour-realisatrice-de-%c2%ab-violent-days-%c2%bb/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>versusmag</dc:creator>
<guid>http://versusmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/lucile-chaufour-realisatrice-de-%c2%ab-violent-days-%c2%bb/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[La cinéphilie compulsive et la référence sublimée ne sont pas néfastes à la formalisation de longs-m]]></description>
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<p>La cinéphilie compulsive et la référence sublimée ne sont pas néfastes à la formalisation de longs-métrages uniques, trouvant leur légitimité d’abord en eux-mêmes plutôt qu’à travers leurs influences disséminées, que celles-ci soient directes ou non. Les critiques souvent faites au cinéma de Tarantino ne sont à cet égard qu’une tartufferie rhétorique destinée à démolir en fin de compte le seul « défaut » que lui reprochent les empêcheurs de rassembler en salles : l’unanimité suscitée auprès du public et d’une large partie des chroniqueurs sous le charme de ses tours de force (esthétiques, narratifs, spectaculaires). Une filmographie qui, débarrassée de ses citations, n’en conserverait pas moins son entière qualité – sinon plus encore.<br />
Dans un tout autre registre, sans confiner à l’exercice citationnel tel que pratiqué par l’ami Quentin, la réalisatrice Lucile Chaufour a truffé son premier long de ces fragments référentiels chers à la mémoire des passionnés du 7e art, tout en signant un vrai et beau film sur le <em>rock n’ roll</em>, les  hommes, les femmes, l’amour  / la dépendance bafoués et la lutte des classes. Une pellicule polysémique, émotionnelle, capable de véhiculer les  vraies valeurs (perverties dans la production hexagonale sous perfusion comico-mongoloïde ou dépressive, et aussi par une certaine frange hollywoodienne, Michael Bay en tête) du divertissement <em>populaire</em> tout en se situant dans une mouvance artistique indépendante voire <em>underground</em>, seule contre tous les pré-formatages et les diktats du concept prétendument « grand public ». <strong>Violent Days</strong> parle du réel avec les atours d’une vraie fiction à l’ancienne et intemporelle à la fois ; <strong>Violent Days </strong> parle de vrais gens dans leur labeur, dans leur violence des samedis soirs où l’on sort entre potes, transmués en personnages de cinéma, toutes époques non pas confondues, mais fusionnées.<br />
En attendant de lire dans <em>VERSUS</em> n° 17 notre critique / analyse détaillée de cette production salvatrice pour le cinéma « français, monsieur » – et qui disparaîtra sans doute trop tôt de la programmation des salles, alors hâtez-vous – brève rencontre, en forme de portrait / propos recueillis, avec la réalisatrice des ces<em> jours violents</em> forcément inoubliables. </p>
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<p><strong>Docu &#38; fiction</strong><br />
<em>« Déontologiquement, je ne peux pas dire que j’ai fait un documentaire »</em>.<br />
<strong>Violent Days</strong> est un film aux frontières du genre parfois, et qui utilise une matière documentaire, des lieux, des façons de filmer, des interviews mais ce que le spectateur voit est « <em>une remise en scène</em> », agrémentée de captations parcellaires, des paroles de travailleurs – de cariste par exemple –, ancrées dans la réalité de leur exploitation mais aussi de leur passion totale pour le <em>rock n’ roll</em> – une raison de vivre, de se décloisonner du quotidien ouvrier.</p>
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<p><strong>Le regard de classe</strong><br />
<em>Quid</em> du travail de représentation cinématographique des classes populaires, forcément délicat, d’un côté comme de l’autre ? « <em>Je n’aime pas l’esthétique du malheur, cette instrumentalisation de l&#8217;autre ou cette complaisance qui explore et se repaît de ce qui ne résiste pas, de ce qui souffre </em> », précise Lucile Chaufour, dont le langage, autant hors-champ que plein cadre, via les images ou les mots (ses notes de réalisation sont un trésor d’éclairage des concepts manipulés dans le film), se révèle d’une précision inouïe, moteurs d’une rhétorique inflexible, qui sait où elle va et ne se détourne pas du sens, premier, essentiel, du message – des effets ? – qu’elle produit.  « <em>Pour moi, les plus beaux films sur le milieu ouvrier sont ceux où les personnages ne sont pas systématiquement ramenés aux a priori de classe, déshumanisés par un traitement qui les rend exotiques ou affligeants, qui les limite et les contraint aux attendus de scénaristes non concernés et peu documentés. Et puis, même si le contexte social et personnel est parfois déceptif, je préfère m&#8217;intéresser aux personnages qui, malgré leurs limites, portent en eux un désir, parfois très ténu, parfois naïf, de changement, qui interrogent, qui refusent d&#8217;admettre la brutalité du monde.</em> » </p>
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<p><strong>Événements et mouvements </strong><br />
L&#8217;histoire que raconte Lucile Chaufour est aussi humaine, émotionnelle. Une influence importante dans ses notes de réalisation, John Cassavetes : « <em>Pour moi, le cinéma de Cassavetes a été une autorisation formidable à faire du cinéma, j&#8217;ai découvert ses films dans les années 80, c&#8217;était une l&#8217;époque où l&#8217;esthétique léchée des films du type <strong>La Lune dans le caniveau</strong> me glaçait&#8230; Il y avait une alternative avec quelques films comme <strong>Star Suburb</strong> (<strong>La Banlieue des étoiles</strong>, Stéphane Drouot) dont l&#8217;humanité, la fragilité, le bricolage, la féerie, le désespoir résonnaient plus justement pour moi, mais je n&#8217;y trouvais pas l&#8217;élan, la vitalité que je cherchais. Et puis un ami m&#8217;a dit de venir voir un film qu&#8217;il avait programmé dans un cinéma en banlieue, c&#8217;était <strong>Husbands</strong>, non sous-titré, je n&#8217;ai pas tout compris mais ça m&#8217;a fait un bien fou : participer à ces moments intenses, désespérés, amoureux, cette façon de chercher une vérité de l&#8217;instant au risque de l&#8217;&#8221;accident&#8221; formel&#8230; je me suis dit : c&#8217;est ça que je veux ressentir&#8230; et même <strong>Meurtre d&#8217;un bookmaker chinois</strong>, qui ne m&#8217;a pas autant plu que <strong>Minnie &#38; Moskowitz</strong>, <strong>Une Femme sous influence</strong>, <strong>Opening night</strong>&#8230;  a été une leçon pour moi : expérimenter la façon dont un plan peut transformer en soi la compréhension du cinéma, en l&#8217;occurence, ce plan dans les premières minutes du film, où l&#8217;on suit Ben Gazarra dans un café. D&#8217;abord surprise, un peu critique, puis perplexe de la durée que prenait ce long plan erratique et souvent sous-exposé, j&#8217;ai de façon de plus en plus précise ressenti l&#8217;ouverture, la liberté, la légèreté qu&#8217;il inscrivait en moi : on pouvait filmer comme ça, assumer un plan à ce point fragile dans la narration, et rendre par là même accessible au spectateur, d&#8217;abord perplexe et déstabilisé, une vérité du personnage et de la situation qu&#8217;aucun dialogue n&#8217;a besoin d&#8217;expliciter. Il y a d’ailleurs une référence au film dans <strong>Violent Days</strong> ; savez-vous quelle chanson chante Ben Gazzara avant le meurtre, quand il téléphone à son club ? Celle que chante, aussi, Mr Sophistication quand Gazzara monte sur scène à la toute fin du métrage…</em> »  [J’ai triché ami lecteur, j’ai revu le film depuis l’entretien : « I Can’t Give You Anything But Love ».]</p>
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<p><strong>Cinéma total</strong><br />
Si le film de Lucile Chaufour parle si bien au spectateur, c’est sans doute parce qu’elle-même parle brillamment du cinéma. Ses références sont pointues, nombreuses, intarissables, et l’amateur éclairé, pour ne pas dire plutôt l’expert, saura retrouver dans les séquences de <strong>Violent Days</strong> des hommages aux classiques. <strong>La Notte</strong> d’Antonioni, <strong>Psychose</strong>, <strong>Les Désaxés</strong> de John Huston, <strong>Samedi soir, dimanche matin</strong> de Karel Reisz, <strong>Nashville</strong> de Robert Altman… Il n’est pas important de les repérer pour apprécier le film. Mais l’amour que Lucile Chaufour porte à ces cinématographies signifiantes et esthétiques permet d’en mesurer la portée instinctive, de capter pour de bon l’énergie communicative de cette histoire de déjante du samedi soir avant / après un concert de rock au Havre.</p>
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<strong>Propos recueillis par Stéphane LEDIEN</strong><br />
<strong>Violent Days</strong> &#62; sorti en salles le 16 septembre 2009</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Street Wear - 1º parte]]></title>
<link>http://hannakramolisck.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/street-wear-1%c2%ba-parte/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hannakramolisck</dc:creator>
<guid>http://hannakramolisck.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/street-wear-1%c2%ba-parte/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[O wear é que define as ocasiões de uso do público alvo. Para atender as necessidades de uso das pess]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>O wear é que define as ocasiões de uso do público alvo.</p>
<p>Para atender as necessidades de uso das pessoas as empresas tem se aprofundado cada vez mais nas especificações dos wears. A origem do wear está no casual, sportswear e habilé. Como ponto de partida, estes wears ganharam novos adjetivos, qualificando-os para cada específica de uso da roupa pelo indivíduo.</p>
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<p><strong>STREET WEAR</strong></p>
<p>O streetwear são roupas de rua usadas no cotidiano do indivíduo nas cidades com influências nas tribos urbanas ( grupos urbanos), também sofrem influências das roupas esportivas. Este segmento veio dos jovens que não queriam seguir as carreiras dos pais e saíram para as ruas á procura de emprego e de uma identidade e independência também expressas no modo de se vestir.</p>
<p>Tudo começou com a revolução industrial e o aparecimento das primeiras cidades urbanas onde a confecção  industrial em massa democratizou a moda.</p>
<p>No século xx as ciências da natureza tecnológica, relações internacionais, a política e o comércio sofreram uma rápida evolução. Também as estruturas sociais e a arte, em todas as suas diversas formas e correntes, sofreram fortes modificações. E a moda passou por várias revoluções nesta época. O rock and roll, o cinema e a televisão tiveram importante papel no modo de se vestir dos jovens nos anos 50. E a juventude tornara-se um fator de mercado importante que já não poderia ser ignorado. Presley e James Dean e Marlon Brandon, ídolos da juventude dos anos 50, são fenômenos característicos da tendência de prolongamento da adolescência, que teve o início justamente nesta época, como Peter Pan não queriam ser adultos, o que significa que já não se contentavam com a vida repartida entre trabalho e família da geração dos seus pais. Iam contra os valores baseados na acumulação de dinheiro e no supostamente correto, bem como a banalidade e o tédio do mundo pequeno – burquês. A infantilização da sociedade ocidental tem origem nos anos 50 e nos protestos dos jovens rebeldes e trouxe suas modas igualmente rebeldes. O streetwear é um segmento de mercado de moda que produz roupas.</p>
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<p>Moda New Edwardian e Teddy Boys</p>
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<p>As jovens burgueses, contrapunham um estilo mais opulento do que o de seus pais e ás privações dos anos de guerra. Inspirados no estilo da moda masculina do tempo de Eduardo VII da Inglaterra, usavam calças justas, casacas, ou casaco cintado com punhos e lapela de veludo, completando se possível, relógios de bolso e alfinetes de gravata com brilhante.</p>
<p>Em Londres no início dos anos 50, começaram a aparecer os Teddy Boys. Eram jovens do meio operário, que passavam seus tempos livres nas ruas juntando-se em gangs. Usavam casacos muito grandes e em tons escuros, com uma fila de botões e ombros exageradamente largos, calças largas, mais justas em baixo e que formavam pregas á volta do tornozelo. Começaram também a usar calças jeans justas. Para completar, usavam camisa engomada, colete e uma gravata muito fina ou um laço. Os sapatos tinham sola grossa de borracha, mais tarde os Teddy Boys começaram a usar sapatos extremamente bicudos. Este look encaixava perfeitamente com o penteado, um enorme topete fixado com a ajuda de muita brilhantina. No final dos anos 50 os teddy boys foram desaparecendo suplantados pela cultura pop, que começara a se formar</p>
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<p><strong>O jeans e o american Way of life</strong></p>
<p>Nos anos 30 na América as calças jeans deixaram de ser usadas apenas para ocasiões de trabalho e começaram a ser usadas em ocasião de lazer. Nos anos 50 começaram a ser exportadas para a Europa e representavam um ideal de vida americana, e se impuseram principalmente devido ao significado simbólico que tinham de liberdade e protesto contra a burguesia. Além disso eram práticas e robustas. Hoje em dia, passaram a ser usadas em qualquer ocasião, fazendo parte do guarda roupa  básico  da maioria das pessoas, e perderam quase por completo seu potencial de rebeldia, a não ser quando são rasgadas.</p>
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<p><strong>Juventude como ideal da sociedade</strong></p>
<p>Nos anos 60 na Europa a geração pós guerra estava a ficar adulta mas o ideal de beleza era a juventude, que havia atingido os domínios da sociedade e da moda. Tinha-se formado uma forte e poderosa camada de consumidores juvenis, que não dispunham de dinheiro para consumir produtos de alta costura.</p>
<p>Desta forma a moda perdia o seu caráter elitista tornando-se  um fenômeno de Massa e da juventude para atender este mercado . Em finais da década de 50 a Moda  é usada também para manifestar pontos de vista  políticos.</p>
<p>A geração  de 60, deixara de se definir segundo valores burgueses, como a moral e a boa educação, pondo a nu a ambiguidade desses termos. A sexualidade pela primeira vez era livre. A pílula fez sumir o medo da gravidez indesejada, o que possibilitava uma sexualidade independente do preconceito burguês. Quem quisesse ser descolado tinha que ser sexualmente libertino.</p>
<p>A mulher-menina com seus olhos grandes e ingênuos  à observar o mundo com seu corpo sem curvas, ocupava o lugar da senhora elegante que outrora era o ideal de beleza. Twiggy tornou-se a primeira top model, ela era o ícone da beleza.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Elephant's Trunk]]></title>
<link>http://fwakbag.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-elephants-trunk/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lili</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fwakbag.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-elephants-trunk/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Related Links: Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Pompadours &#8211; http://coolmenshair.com/2007/05/rockabill]]></description>
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<p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>
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<li>Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Pompadours &#8211; <a href="http://coolmenshair.com/2007/05/rockabilly-hairstyle.html" target="_blank">http://coolmenshair.com/2007/05/rockabilly-hairstyle.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYycrsAZs1Q" target="_blank">Pompadour</a> (YouTube)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmSvpJt1cY&#38;feature=related" target="_blank">Rockabilly Hairdo</a> (YouTube)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyreaDiIqeE" target="_blank">Don&#8217;t Mess With The Teds</a> (YouTube)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rvxFbnbqM" target="_blank">The Cult Of The Teddy Boy</a> (YouTube)</li>
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<p>The beauty of sculpted hair! I am drawing Teddy Boys right now and this is all such perfect perfect reference!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jeg Liker Ben Watts]]></title>
<link>http://kennethtangnes.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/jeg-liker-ben-watts/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenneth Tangnes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kennethtangnes.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/jeg-liker-ben-watts/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Teddy Boys Ben Watts /Kenneth Tangnes]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_boy" target="_blank">Teddy Boys</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.photographerslimitededitions.com/index.php?cat=c105_BEN-WATTS.html" target="_blank">Ben Watts</a></p>
<p>/Kenneth Tangnes</p>
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<link>http://recensionilibertarie.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/john-martin-primo-moronila-luna-sotto-casa-milano-tra-rivolta-esistenziale-e-movimenti-politiciedizioni-shake-2009-euro-16-00/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Il volume-scritto da Moroni direttore della Libreria Calusca-ha come suo scopo principale quello di ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Il volume-scritto da Moroni direttore della Libreria Calusca-ha come suo scopo principale quello di analizzare nel dettaglio l&#8217;evoluzione demo-urbanistico di Milano tra glia anni cinquanta e gli anni ottanta in stretta correlazione con al formazione e la disgregazione di gruppi giovanili antagonisti.Ben lungi dal presentarsi avalutativo,il saggio ha infatti una natura squisitamente militante:infatti mentre da un lato l&#8217;autore non risparmia nel corso dell&#8217;ananlisi valutazioni assolutamente negative intorno all&#8217;operato delle giunte centriste che si sono avvicendate durante i decenni,dall&#8217;altro lato l&#8217;ottica interpretativa con la quale legge il modus operandi della sinistra antagonista e&#8217; sovente elogiativo.Dopo aver dato una definizione abbastanza ampia di cosa sia una banda giovanile,Moroni ne individua i luoghi di aggregazione(sale da ballo,cave esistenzialistiche,osterie e bar),strumenti di espressione(rock&#8217;n'roll,boogie,slow e be-bop),denominazione(i Teddy Boys) e infine il modus operandi(il travestimento,le sfide a biliardo,i conflitti verbali e fisici che altro non sono che reazioni istintive  ai codici imposti dalla industrializzazione avanzata non mediate ideologicamente e alle quali mancano obiettivi precisi).Nel giro di breve tempo sia la classe plitica che le princiapli testate giornalistiche eserciteranno una tale pressione sulla opinione pubblica da indurre la gran parte della borghesia a leggere i Teddy Boys come il prodotto piu&#8217; deteriore della societa&#8217;,valutazione questa che portera&#8217; alla giustificazione della repressione poliziesca nel 1961.(superfluo osservare che l&#8217;autore dissente radicalmente dalla applicazione e dalla promulgazione stessa della legge 1423 del 1956 nata per prendere una serie di provvedimenti efficaci nei confronti di quegli individui o gruppi ritenuti potenzialmente pericolosi).Sempre negli anni cinquanta prende piede nei cabaret milanesi la satirica politica e di costume che ebbe come interpreti i Gufi,Fo,Gaber e Jannacci e come pubblico una ristretta cerchia di borghesi intellettuali.Tuttavia l&#8217;influenza piu&#8217; rilevante sara&#8217; esercitata-a partire dal 1964-dalla capillare diffusione della televisione che “inchiodera&#8217; decine di milioni di persone davanti al teleschermo non solo nelle case ma anche nei bar,contribuendo a creare nuovi modelli di riferimento”(p.106),modelli di riferimento che saranno fatti oggetto di critiche impietose dalle prime aggregazioni antagoniste-i Beat-sorti tra il 64 e il 65.La realizzazione della rivista “Mondo Beat” e l&#8217;apertura di una tendopoli-una sorta di comunita&#8217; autogestita-serviranno a cotruire concretamente una realta&#8217; alternativa a quella consumistico capitalistica,una realta&#8217; che avra&#8217; nel pacifismo e nell&#8217;anticapitalismo alcune delle sue principali direttrici tematiche.Dopo lo sgombero della tendopoli da parte della polizia nel 1967, a partire dall&#8217;anno successivo,le realta&#8217; antagoniste milanesi-fatte da studenti,operai e intellettuali-si diffonderanno in modo capillare portando alla formazioni di raggruppamenti extraparlamentari ,di sindacati di base che insieme sapranno coniugare la rivolta esistenziale con il rifiuto di qualsiasi modello politico precostituito.Tuttavia,una parte consistente di questa soggettivita&#8217; antagonista scegliera&#8217; la via della militarizzazione leninista che avra&#8217; come suo tragico epilogo il sorgere del terrorismo.A questo esito fatale,riuscira&#8217; a sottrarsi sia l&#8217;underground-attraverso la musica,la mistica,l&#8217;alimentazione,l&#8217;aborto,il divorzio,l&#8217;omosessualita&#8217;-come nel caso della esperienza di Valcarenghi con la rivista “Re Nudo” sia i centri sociali   che- sorti tra il 1975 e il 1976- saranno veri e propri centri di contropotere territoriale(si pensi al Leonka,all&#8217;Isola-) affiancati dalle radio libere come Radio popolare.<br />
Gagliano Giuseppe</p>
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<title><![CDATA[musicology #374]]></title>
<link>http://themusicologist.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/musicology-374/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>themusicologist</dc:creator>
<guid>http://themusicologist.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/musicology-374/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Modernist #2 (The Miracles &#8211; Way Over There) Today I would like to take the opportunity and qu]]></description>
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<p><strong>(The Miracles &#8211; Way Over There)</strong></p>
<p>Today I would like to take the opportunity and quote from a top ranking piece of critique on the subject of Modernist by a Cat named Johnny Spencer who lived through as well as observed the changing face of London during the early Sixties.</p>
<p>&#8220;In London during the early sixties as in other parts of the British Isles a tiny minority of young, (mostly working class), boys and girls known only to themselves as &#8216;Modernists&#8217; were walking, talking, dressing and dancing to a different song. These youngsters who were conceived in the heady and delirious optimism that marked the end of WW II had passed onto them in their genes a very real sense of supremecy, invincibility and confidence, a confidence that was fuelled and underpinned by the meta narrative of the western world, the concept of modernity, then at it&#8217;s zenith. By the early 1960&#8217;s the social fabric of cities in England had changed radically from the period before 1945, the war had dealt attitudes of authority and deference a mortal blow, conscription had ended, and the young en masse for the first time found themselves with a realistic disposable income. With history on their side this generation of independently minded teenagers felt able to think and act for themselves, not in a quasi-intellectual way as the &#8216;beatnicks&#8217; had done, or to have to rebel, like the &#8216;Teddy Boys&#8217;, but as a truly autonomous entity.&#8221;</p>
<p>The musicology is courtesy of modernist icons &#8216;The Miracles&#8217;, (Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Ronald White and Claudette Rogers), whose unique and distinctive sound epitomised the emerging sound that became known as Soul. The cut that was BIG on the London scene was in fact the second version, (with strings), but in the essence of &#8216;Modernist&#8217; I had to lay this, (regional) one, (without strings), on you. Recorded for and released in 1960 on Motown.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lee Samuels]]></title>
<link>http://breakingtherulessouthend.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/lee-samuels/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>breakingtherulessouthend</dc:creator>
<guid>http://breakingtherulessouthend.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/lee-samuels/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lee a Teddy Boy in 1976 “We were in gangs. Gang culture at the time was a rebirth of the Teddy Boys ]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><em>“If you were part of a gang you had a tattoo. I was living right next door to a tattooist, so before I knew where I was every Saturday I was in the tattooist having a new tattoo.”</em></span></p>
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<link>http://thirdbreath.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/age-before-beauty-pt-2/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mikehalessnr</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thirdbreath.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/age-before-beauty-pt-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How long is a job these days ? Perseverance. It’s not an especially long word, nor is it a difficult]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>How long is a job these days ?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perseverance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s not an especially long word, nor is it a difficult word to understand.<span>  </span>But so many people find it the hardest word to put into practice.<span>  </span>But ask any champion; ask any top entrepreneur or businessman or woman; ask anyone who has reached a pinnacle in their chosen life-path and sooner or later they will mention the ‘p’ word.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is almost the key to a long and fulfilling life.<span>  </span>That great golfer Gary Player is renowned for having said: “ The harder I practice, it seems the luckier I get.”<span>  </span>For ‘practice’ substitute ‘persevere’.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> So where is all this leading ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, I have been lucky, like Gary Player, in securing three major appointments in later life and I want to share with you how I did it.<span>  </span>I’m not pretending that this is the only way or that this is the latest Life Training formula – the Hales Diet – but I hope that it will encourage more people to continue with a busy and rewarding life until their bodies or minds can take no more, instead of joining God’s waiting room in retirement.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The odds are stacked against you.<span>  </span>For some reason that has never been clear to me, youth is still preferred over experience, though it beats me how a young and relatively untried person who is still experimenting with experience can be better than someone who has done all that, achieved a degree of success and still has the energy and personal resource to do more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, there are youth businesses where a scarcity of years is mandatory.<span>  </span>Sport is an obvious example, where the performance of the body is governed by a combination of age, practice, talent and – yes, experience.<span>  </span>There comes an optimum moment for all sportsmen after which the body, predictably, starts to fail the sternest tests and performance begins to fade.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The same may be true to a lesser extent of Formula One racing drivers.<span>  </span>Where once a cavalier approach to the danger of mastering great brutes of engineering around a barely-prepared circuit constituted the sport, nowadays it is to be the short, slim, fantastically-fit,<span> </span>young pilot of a truly awesome piece of computerised machinery rocketing around a tightly-honed racing track.<span>  </span>Youth still predominates at the sharp end of motor-racing but many of the older generation, who have finessed lightning-fast reactions in controlling a machine built for speed, can still post comparable times and have continued their careers in parallel forms of racing like touring cars.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I always felt that the popular music business was an industry for younger people.<span>  </span>People with the certainty and confidence of youth. People who are closer to the ultimate market for much of the output.<span>  </span>At 28, I was the liaison executive for the whole of North America for a European record company.<span>  </span>At 30 I was Head of Popular Music for the world – very much a case of today New York, tomorrow the world!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But soon afterwards I became disillusioned with the music business when the very cyclical nature of the popularity of certain genres became apparent.<span>  </span>After surviving the Osmonds, the Jacksons and the Bay City Rollers in succession it became obvious that ‘boy bands’ would reign supreme approximately every five years.<span>  </span>Take That and Boyzone carried on the mantle in later years and were joined by countless combinations of young girls who gyrated robotically and breathed tunelessly over a syncopated beat.<span>  </span>There, there, I’m sinking into cynicism.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How long do people stay in a job these days on average ? Once the thought of changing companies was unhead of, but today people change jobs almost as often as they change their clothes ! Once you would have been frowned on as unreliable if you left a company in less than 3-5 years.<span>  </span>Now that is often the maximum that anyone stays as job-hopping sends them up the career and income ladders.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But in a straight contest for a senior position, how can a young man, who is still racking up experience and dealing with new situations almost daily, be preferable to an older man who has experienced all of these situations successfully, often worked in several industries to get a broad view of working life, yet is still open-minded and ambitious.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The older man, who is still inquisitive about life and fascinated by events and new developments, has an aggregation of experience against which he can set the new and the potentially unfamiliar.<span>  </span>He’s half way to a solution to whatever the problem is based on experience alone, while a younger person may still be chewing his fingernails pondering the answer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who can put a price on that asset ?<span>  </span>The key for an older person is never to tire of life; never to fall into that trap of comparing current events unfavourably with the past. “It’s not like the good old days” is a familiar refrain from middle-aged and older people – and it’s the wrong attitude.<span>  </span>Things are neither better nor worse today than they were ten, 20 or 50 years ago.<span>  </span>They’re different.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Inevitably when there’s more of your life behind you than ahead, your attitude must change and the scope for comparison grows.<span>  </span>But it is a dangerous trap into which to fall. We all have to get our heads around the fact that life goes on and we are merely a very small part of it for a few years.<span>  </span>Nobody, I suspect, really knows where the human race is headed, nor why it evolved in the first place.<span>  </span>But, as individuals, we need to soak up as much as we can of life within our allotted span, and to contribute as much as we can within the talent and expertise that we are able to develop in the time available.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What I find difficult to understand is the fatalistic attitude to life that seems to prevail among many people.<span>  </span>They seem content to be foot-soldiers merely fulfilling a modest function, probably smoking too much or drinking too much, which brings on the ill-health in later life that finally kills them off many years before necessary. Why don’t they make the effort to break out of their circumstances and find a tougher path that might bring them greater fulfilment?<span>  </span>Some do that in the name of religion but I believe that is simply a panacea for the one and only life that we lead by promising that it’s all going to be great the next time around.<span>  </span>Hmmmm!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, young people will always rebel against the status quo, but different generations do it in different ways.<span>  </span>Not long after World War Two there were Teddy Boys in the 50s.<span>   </span>Then there were Mods and Rockers in the 60s. They were followed by New Romantics, Goths, Punks and at the turn of the 21<sup>st</sup> century there was a mix of all of them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What has changed with recent generations is the breakdown of respect.<span>  </span>Respect for other people; for their property and their right to enjoy life without unwarranted interference. One supposes that much of this fragmenting of respect is due to the ‘dumbing down’ of education following a generation of self-appointed education experts who decided that learning was a bit too stressful for young people.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Respect cannot survive in such an atmosphere.<span>  </span>Individuals must be allowed to order their own lives as long as what they do does not unduly imperil the lives of others.<span>  </span>There is a greater good for society, which must be respected in its turn, but it is not the over-riding consideration in our daily lives.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What the ‘experts’ overlook is that challenge and, yes, stress, is part of the learning process whether you are a young human; a chimpanzee or a dolphin.<span>  </span>The young need to experiment; to play and to learn the limits of acceptable behaviour.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A broken arm here, a bruised leg there or a sharp rebuke, never hurt anyone in the long term – but it did teach them something about the limits of life. It seems that our educationalists and safety fanatics have forgotten these basic instincts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They are encouraging new generations of people who expect all the rewards of life without putting in any effort to achieve them.<span>  </span>The ‘have nots’ have become the ‘why nots’ who simply take, or attempt to take, what they see others enjoying – whether it is a nice car, a sophisticated mobile phone or some sort of social prominence.<span>  </span>That is why our contemporary society is full now of ‘celebrities’ who lack the talent to sustain their fame.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They overlook the fact that major public figures have laboured long and hard to achieve their position and have contributed a great deal to public life before achieving recognition – whether they are Bruce Forsyth or Sir Alan Sugar.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All the fight, the daring, the experimentation is being drafted out of our lives. Soon we’ll be zombies dancing to the tunes of socialist governments intent on dictating every waking moment – and most of the sleeping moments – of our lives.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But the baby boomer generation has led the way since the 1950s and now as it moves into the third age it is still exerting huge influence over the way society moves and acts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Music has been a great carpet of fulfilment carrying this one massive generation into old age with a love of exciting music.<span>  </span>It has carried the musicians too.<span>  </span>Forty years ago the Rolling Stones were predicted to have about another six months left to their career – by me, as a young journalist, among others &#8211; after a flop single.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here they are still at the top of the rock’n’roll tree (except perhaps for Keith Richards whose tree-climbing ability is suspect) in the first decade of the twenty-first century.<span>  </span>Many other hit bands of the 60s and 70s like the Manfreds are still touring the world. The principals – the ‘faces’ – are now well into their sixties and the music is as vibrant as ever.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And what faces they are.<span>  </span>The pop stars are the tip of the iceberg but it is generally true that the ‘baby-boomer’ generation – born in the 1940s and 50s – has changed our outlook on life. In previous generations a person in their fifties would have been regarded as old – and moreover would have looked old &#8211; with dreary clothes and a careworn look about them.<span>  </span>Smoking was so prevalent in earlier generations that their faces would be heavily-lined.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nowadays people in their sixties and seventies often look good, dress imaginatively and more and more are remaining active within their chosen spheres.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Old’ now has shifted into the eighties and nineties (see Diana Athill below) with people living beyond a century becoming commonplace.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And that is the crux of the message in my book &#8216;Age Before Beauty.&#8217;<span>  </span>Extend your active life by continuing to work, to look for jobs and to win new jobs for as long as you feel able.<span>  </span>I am well into my sixties now and, like so many people, I feel as though I am up to 20 years younger and I want to go on experiencing this amazing thing called life.</p>
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<link>http://milanointernazionale.it/2009/04/04/dalle-bande-di-quartiere-ai-centri-sociali/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dalle bande di quartiere ai centri sociali Recensione di: John Martin e Primo Moroni, &#8220;La luna]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><strong>Recensione di: John Martin e Primo Moroni, &#8220;La luna sotto casa. Milano tra rivolta esistenziale e movimenti politici&#8221;, Shake edizioni, 2007, 248 pagine, euro 16,00 (a cura di Andrea Ferrario)</strong></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Con lo sgombero e la successiva rioccupazione del centro sociale Conchetta (Cox 18) di Milano il nome di Primo Moroni è tornato a comparire sulle pagine dei grandi media della città per la prima volta dopo la sua morte avvenuta nel 1998. L&#8217;azione della polizia, voluta dal Comune di Milano e in particolare dal vicesindaco Riccardo De Corato, ha tra le altre cose rischiato di fare cadere nelle mani del potere che Moroni aveva sempre combattuto il suo preziosissimo e unico archivio del &#8220;sapere alternativo, punk, underground e politico&#8221;, per usare la definizione che ne dà John Martin nella sua introduzione al libro. Leggendo il racconto della Milano alternativa dal dopoguerra fino agli anni ottanta, scritto da Martin in seguito a un lungo lavoro collettivo di ricostruzione della memoria della città svolto insieme allo stesso Primo Moroni e utilizzando brani di sue memorie e analisi, diventa subito evidente perché l&#8217;ipotesi ventilata dal Comune di trasferire l&#8217;archivio di Primo Moroni in una sede istituzionale corrisponde né più né meno a un vero e proprio furto e a una censura. Sempre su posizioni di sinistra rivoluzionaria, testimone partecipe delle culture alternative, radicalmente estraneo a ogni forma di istituzionalizzazione, Primo Moroni, così come il suo archivio, la sua libreria e i suoi scritti, è del tutto irriducibile a qualsiasi forma di appropriazione da parte del sistema.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Moroni è stato uno dei testimoni e degli attori più intelligenti della vita di Milano, dove era nato nel 1936 e dove aveva svolto i più diversi mestieri, dallo chef de rang nei ristoranti fino al settore vendite in grandi case editrici. Negli anni settanta ha fondato la libreria Calusca, che prima si trovava in Corso di Porta Ticinese, poi si è spostata in Piazza Sant&#8217;Eustorgio e infine è approdata in via Conchetta. Ma soprattutto, oltre che un infaticabile militante della sinistra antiautoritaria, è stato un grande organizzatore culturale che dagli anni sessanta e fino alla sua morte nel 1998 è stato promotore di mille iniziative, dalle riviste ai progetti editoriali, con una sensibilità unica per le culture alternative [per un profilo biografico di Primo Moroni rimandiamo alla relativa voce di Wikipedia (<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo_Moroni" target="_blank">http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo_Moroni</a>) e al ricordo di Carlo Formenti pubblicato dal Corriere della Sera (<a href="http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1998/aprile/01/Addio_Moroni_ultimo_alternativo_co_7_980401652.shtml" target="_blank">http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1998/aprile/01/Addio_Moroni_ultimo_alternativo_co_7_980401652.shtml</a>)]. Della sua produzione scritta ricordiamo in particolare un libro fondamentale come &#8220;L&#8217;orda d&#8217;oro 1968-1977. La grande ondata rivoluzionaria e creativa, politica ed esistenziale&#8221;, di cui è coautore Nanni Balestrini.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">&#8220;La luna sotto casa&#8221; è un libro straordinario e del tutto unico nel panorama della letteratura su Milano, che offre allo stesso tempo un racconto dei quartieri di Milano e dei proletari e sottoproletari che la abitavano, un&#8217;analisi della sua evoluzione sociale e urbanistica dal secondo dopoguerra fino alla nascita dei centri sociali negli anni settanta e una meticolosa mappatura dei vari luoghi in cui ha preso vita e si è sviluppata la cultura popolare e alternativa milanese dei trenta-quaranta anni lungo il quale si dipana il libro. Alle radici di questa lunga storia ci sono le bande di quartiere, create perlopiù da sottoproletari e che dal dopoguerra ai primi anni cinquanta erano ancora in buona parte insediate nel pieno centro della città. Tra i loro luoghi topici vi era tutta l&#8217;area del microsistema di via Larga e le zone connesse, in particolare il quartiere del Bottonuto, poi scomparso, al quale Martin-Moroni dedicano pagine molto belle, e il Ticinese, da sempre uno dei quartieri fulcro della cultura popolare milanese. Ma c&#8217;era anche la zona di Porta Vigentina, a maggioranza operaia e le cui coordinate culturali erano quindi molto diverse da quelle degli altri microsistemi delle bande di quartiere. L&#8217;analisi che ci viene offerta è davvero a tutto tondo: si va dalle coordinate urbanistiche del contesto, fino alle modalità delle alleanze tra bande, al gergo e ai codici comportamentali, ai locali e ai luoghi di aggregazione frequentati, alle varie case chiuse (con tanto di prezzi per i rapporti con preservativo!), ai negozi presenti (con descrizioni meticolose: nell&#8217;area Richini-Pantano c&#8217;erano, per esempio, &#8220;4 trattorie-osterie, 1 pasticceria, 2 droghieri, 9 bar, 2 bar-tabacchi, 2 salumieri, 2 macellai, 2 edicole, 2 meccani auto-moto, 2 cartolibrerie, 2 venditori di abiti usati, 2 mercerie, 2 sarti con negozio, 2 barbieri&#8221;). Un mondo tutto diverso da quello che conosciamo oggi, basti pensare che all&#8217;epoca i punti di contatto tra sottoproletari e rampolli della borghesia erano ancora frequenti: interi microquartieri, come il già menzionato Bottonuto, erano a composizione mista e c&#8217;erano luoghi, come le cave esistenzialiste, in cui i rispettivi percorsi notturni si incrociavano.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nel decennio che segue il Piano regolatore del 1953 le cose cambiano radicalmente. Il centro città viene espropriato dal capitale finanziario e dalla speculazione edilizia, e nascono i quartieri satellite in cui vengono relegati proletari e sottoproletari, che sempre più spesso sono immigrati recenti. Come scrivono gli autori: &#8220;L&#8217;attenuazione dei processi collettivi di coesione fondati sulla presenza di memorie storiche smembra alla base la solidità dei gruppi e le loro dinamiche di alleanza, producendo un&#8217;azione sociale sempre più frammentata e indifferente rispetto al tessuto sociale urbano&#8221;. Le bande si sfaldano sotto i colpi della speculazione edilizia e, in particolare quelle delle aree operaie a Nord/Nord-Ovest, vengono &#8220;modificate dall&#8217;incrocio con le culture degli immigrati, portatrici di codici comportamentali non sempre in linea con l&#8217;ideale del conflitto di classe&#8221;. I gruppi di Teddy Boys che nascono intorno alla metà degli anni cinquanta sono ormai insediati lontano dal centro e molto al di fuori della Cerchia dei Navigli. La loro geografia è determinata dai grandi assi del trasporto urbano che utilizzano per muoversi nella città. E il loro numero è nettamente inferiore a quello delle bande di quartiere: le dettagliate cartine inserite nel libro individuano 6 gruppi di Teddy Boys contro le 26 bande di quartiere di alcuni anni prima. Cambia anche il profilo: &#8220;la loro azione sociale collettiva è molto più vicina alla devianza organizzata che non a un movimento sociale&#8221;, scrivono gli autori, ma i Teddy Boys non mancano di creatività, come testimonia il fatto che abbiano introdotto a Milano la pratica del graffito, realizzandone uno nel loro bar di via Borsieri.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Con la metà degli anni sessanta arriva l&#8217;era della società di massa, del centrosinistra, della ormai totale espulsione dei proletari verso i quartieri ghetto in periferia. Scompaiono i punti di aggregazione e i locali che creavano il contesto per lo svilupparsi dei microsistemi delle bande e dei Teddy Boys. Ma allo stesso tempo la città si sprovincializza, giungono gli echi delle nuove culture internazionali e nasce il movimento beat milanese, che ha come principali luoghi di aggregazione e di visibilità le grandi piazze del centro (Piazza Cadorna, Piazza Cordusio e la stessa Piazza Duomo). Ma che si appropria anche degli spazi liberi ai margini della città, come nel caso del grande &#8220;accampamento libero&#8221; di Barbonia City che ha preso vita nel 1967 in zona Ripamonti, suscitando un enorme scandalo tra i borghesi. A Milano è nata e uscita brevemente nello stesso anno anche la più importante pubblicazione beat, &#8220;Mondo beat&#8221;, alla quale si affiancheranno con il tempo decine di pubblicazioni nella stessa città e nel resto d&#8217;Italia: è la nascita dell&#8217;editoria autoprodotta e alternativa. Rispetto alle precedenti esperienze delle bande e dei Teddy Boys cresce la capacità di confrontarsi con il contesto sociale e politico, l&#8217;uso creativo del territorio si fa più cosciente. Lo sgombero di Barbonia City reca però un duro colpo al movimento beat, molti suoi membri scelgono la strada dell&#8217;&#8221;emigrazione&#8221; in campagna, ma i pochi di loro che erano rimasti prendono parte a una delle più importanti occupazioni di edifici nella storia italiana, quella dell&#8217;Hotel Commercio in Piazza Fontana. E&#8217; il novembre del 1968, siamo ormai nel pieno delle lotte studentesche e operaie. L&#8217;immigrazione e la scolarizzazione di massa hanno nuovamente rivoluzionato il contesto sociale: nelle lotte per il lavoro, il diritto allo studio e la casa si inserisce il filone antiautoritario che attraverso i beat trova le sue radici nella cultura sottoproletaria delle bande di quartiere del dopoguerra. Nascono così la controcultura e l&#8217;underground, che hanno il loro fulcro, soprattutto a Milano, nella rivista Re Nudo. Nascono anche l&#8217;Autonomia Operaia e i Circoli del Proletariato Giovanile che danno il via, nel 1975-1976, all&#8217;occupazione di decine di edifici per insediarvi i primi Centri sociali autogestiti (in tutto 24 a Milano nel giro di soli undici mesi). Nel magma politico di quegli anni si produce così &#8220;da una parte una spinta organizzativa immediata, ma dall&#8217;altra una serie di dinamiche improntate alla separatezza e distanza politico-culturale dall&#8217;area operaia, che già prefigurano l&#8217;incerto futuro del movimento&#8221;. Tra le principali esperienze vi sono quelle del Leoncavallo, del Centro sociale Isola e del Santa Marta. L&#8217;anno di crisi del 1976-1977 cambierà radicalmente l&#8217;esperienza dei Centri sociali, sta per arrivare un&#8217;altra epoca, quella del &#8220;no future&#8221; e del punk (che troverà nel Santa Marta il primo recettore tra i centri sociali), ma si tratta di un altro capitolo che deve essere in parte ancora scritto.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Il libro di Martin-Moroni è un testo che ha innumerevoli pregi. Innanzitutto quello di recuperare e ricontestualizzare la memoria della cultura popolare urbana milanese degli anni tra la fine dei quaranta e la metà dei sessanta (con una precisazione fondamentale: se non ci fosse stato Primo Moroni con la sua intelligenza e la sua curiosità probabilmente gran parte di tale memoria sarebbe andata definitivamente perduta). La prospettiva dei trenta-quaranta anni che vengono coperti è fondamentale sia per capire gli sviluppi più recenti sia per dare significato alla memoria dispersa di quelli più lontani. Il libro poi riesce a essere rigoroso senza mai scadere nell&#8217;accademico. Una storia della memoria senza la contestualizzazione urbanistica, economica e sociale sarebbe scaduta nell&#8217;aneddotico, mentre la seconda senza la prima avrebbe dato un risultato arido e rivolto a pochi addetti ai lavori. La lettura del libro è invece piacevolissima e stimolante, i riquadri con le memorie di persone, ambienti e avvenimenti sono sempre intelligenti e non si limitano alla macchietta. Certo, &#8220;La luna sotto casa&#8221; non racconta tutta la Milano del trentennio e più preso in esame, ci sarebbe molto altro da raccontare, ma il libro giustamente si limita alla &#8220;rivolta esistenziale e i movimenti politici&#8221;. Ed è senz&#8217;altro una pietra miliare nella letteratura sulla storia di questa città, una lettura indispensabile per chi vuole capirla a fondo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Momma Don't Allow (Reisz/Richardson, 1956)]]></title>
<link>http://cinematrices.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/momma-dont-allow-reiszrichardson-1956/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[UK, 22 min dance, teddy boy, dance&#8230; don&#8217;t worry; that duck&#8217;s ass at the back of yo]]></description>
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<p>dance, teddy boy, dance&#8230;<br />
don&#8217;t worry; that duck&#8217;s ass<br />
at the back of your head<br />
looks mighty fine</p>
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<p>well, obviously i&#8217;ve been on  a <a href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444789/index.html" target="_blank">free cinema</a> kick for the last few days. i recommend all these films as great context to anyone interested in brit cinema, especially fans of the <a href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/445176/" target="_blank">british new wave</a> and/or the &#8220;<a href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/594201/" target="_blank">angry young man</a>&#8221; and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_drama" target="_blank"> kitchen sink realism</a> dramas from that period.</p>
<p>this entry is by <a href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451812/" target="_blank">karel reisz</a> (director of <em>saturday night &#38; sunday morning</em>, producer of anderson&#8217;s <em>this sporting life</em>) and <a href="http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451352/" target="_blank">tony richardson</a> (<em>look back in anger</em>, <em>a taste of honey</em>, <em>the loneliness of the long distance runner</em>).</p>
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<p>the film depicts an evening at a jazz club, but the directors designed it to give a sense of narrative. like the others i&#8217;ve seen thus far, it has great music. this time it&#8217;s from a live jazz band.  (see full synopsis from screenonline at the end of this entry.)</p>
<p>while it lacks the sense of spontaneity of the last two i watched (several parts are obviously highly staged), it does have the advantage of exploring its subjects &#8211; youngish members of the working class and the emerging youth culture &#8211; in more depth, and with far more affection than <em><a href="http://cinematrices.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/o-dreamland-lindsay-anderson-1953/" target="_blank">o dreamland</a></em> or <em><a href="http://cinematrices.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/nice-time-gorettatanner-1957/" target="_blank">nice time</a></em>.</p>
<p>it&#8217;s of particular interest for its fantastic footage of kids dancin&#8217; up a storm (wish i knew what little trot they&#8217;re doing), youth fashion, and for featuring an awkward mixing of proles and middle class brits.</p>
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<p>(where and when did these kids used to learn their dance steps? did they need to be taught, or did they learn by example? whose example? argh. also, if anyone knows of a doc that depicts these lads actually putting the brilliantine [or whatever] in their hair&#8230; hook me up)</p>
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<p>it left me with another question&#8230;. WHO is this john fletcher guy? he&#8217;s been attached to every one of the three free cinema docs that i&#8217;ve watched thus far. must research.</p>
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<p>from screenonline:</p>
<blockquote><p>Chris Barber&#8217;s jazz band unpack their instruments and rehearse for the evening concert at the Wood Green Jazz Club in North London. Meanwhile, young working-class people &#8211; a waitress, a butcher boy, a dentist&#8217;s assistant &#8211; leave their work and head for the club.</p>
<p>There, a crowds of youngsters are queuing to get in as the band starts playing. Teddy boys order their first pint, joke with their friends and flirt with girls while the first couples move towards the dance floor.</p>
<p>The friendly atmosphere is only disrupted by the arrival of a group of middle-class young people out on a &#8220;slumming night&#8221;. They show off their expensive cars, suits and evening dresses and look at the working-class youngsters with amusement and contempt. When it comes to dancing, they seem less self-assured, but everybody treats them with indifference. They leave the club as the evening goes on.</p>
<p>On stage the band alternates boisterous jazzy tunes and slower ballads sung by a female singer. Between two songs some couples progressively get closer, hug each other and kiss. Others have a row and then make up. A girl falls asleep on her boyfriend&#8217;s shoulder. On the dance floor the most active youngsters accelerate their pace and only stop jiving when the band decides to pack up. The revellers go home, exhausted but happy.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[British Style Genius]]></title>
<link>http://pulpaddiction.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/british-style-genius/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Crackity Jones</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Teddy Boys British Style Genius is a great series looking at how we are defined by what we wear, how]]></description>
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<p><a title="BBC iPLayer - British Style Genius" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fh77w" target="_blank">British Style Genius</a> is a great series looking at how we are defined by what we wear, how we have innovated in fashion and popular culture. You have to watch this episode, it looks at the early beginnings of youth culture &#8211; breaking away from parents in post-war Britain with the early teddy boys, through to the love of us: the mods, all the way up &#8211; drawing parallels with the modern &#8217;scenes&#8217; and showing just how similar they are at base level. <span style="color:#808080;"><em>Click on the picture to watch.</em></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jeg Liker 'All-Things-British']]></title>
<link>http://kennethtangnes.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/jeg-liker-all-things-british/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenneth Tangnes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kennethtangnes.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/jeg-liker-all-things-british/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Og det er det jo mange som gjør. Nå som D2 også har slengt seg på Savile Row bølgen (Her er en stor ]]></description>
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<p>Og det er det jo mange som gjør. Nå som D2 også har slengt seg på Savile Row bølgen (Her er en stor gratulasjon på sin plass til norsk motejournalistikk. Gratulerer! Kun 5 år for sent denne gangen&#8230;) og norske hipstere har vært innom Mods, Rockers og til en viss grad Skinheads, så er det vel mange kids i de &#8216;kreative yrker&#8217; som gråter seg i søvn etter jakten på hvilken annen britisk ungdomskultur de nå kan kopiere. Vel&#8230; Her er et par britiske sub-/ungdomskulturer til de kan teste ut &#8211; og det under ett og samme klesmerke:</p>
<p><a href="http://socialsuicide.co.uk/collections/this-season/" target="_blank">Social Suicide</a></p>
<p>Denne sesongen presenterer de en kolleksjon basert på en antologi av britiske arbeiderklasse ungdomskulturer fra 1950-1980. Fra Teddy Boys til Rude Boys. Alt sammen innsvøpt i LITT Savile Row bespoke, but not quite&#8230; Hvis dine interesser ligger i et annet terreng, så får du gjennom denne kolleksjonen i hvert fall en fin gjennomgang av forskjellige bevegelser i britisk ungdomskultur fra siste halvdel av forrige århundre.</p>
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<p>Minner meg om dette fantastiske intervjuet med bl.a Ringo Starr i forbindelse med &#8216;krigen&#8217; mellom Mods og Rockers:</p>
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<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m a mocker!&#8217; Ahhh&#8230; priceless! In case you&#8217;re wondering &#8211; John L. skriver &#8216;TITS&#8217; på blokken&#8230;</p>
<p>Stay SHARP, Pat Sharp!</p>
<p>/Kenneth Tangnes</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Astrid Kircherr's scissors]]></title>
<link>http://mimetolith.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/astrid-kircherrs-scissors/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 13:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mimetolith</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mimetolith.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/astrid-kircherrs-scissors/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To be at Art school, play in a band, wear shades a lot, have a foreign girl-friend, to have a studio]]></description>
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<p>To be at Art school, play in a band, wear shades a lot, have a foreign girl-friend, to have a studio in a foreign city. The primary desires of many young white males who aspire, and have aspired to, a <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415.html">counter culture</a> that has become mainstream.</p>
<p>To be male in 1961 in England, you were either a kid in shorts, Clarks sandals and sporting <a href="http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3068385.jpg?v=1&#38;c=ViewImages&#38;k=2&#38;d=32F168F2F013CA9ABB2086E0E05B8FF0A55A1E4F32AD3138">short back and sides</a>, a <a href="http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/teds/pair2.jpg">quiffed</a> and dandy ted (it&#8217;s still just about possible to see the last vestiges of the original quiff and <a href="http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3430955.jpg?v=1&#38;c=ViewImages&#38;k=2&#38;d=A6F75B5D5F9A091CD797FEC56F7BEDE1A55A1E4F32AD3138">ducks-arse</a> on men of a certain age in provincial UK towns), a duffel coated and whispy bearded <a href="http://www.18forever.ca/YMCA%20Beatnik%20Dance%201961%20-2.jpg">beatnik</a> or a pipe smoking bohemian in corduroys. Or just &#8220;old&#8221;.</p>
<p>When <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Astrid_Kirchherr_in_1964.jpg/448px-Astrid_Kirchherr_in_1964.jpg">Astrid Kircherr</a> cut <a href="http://www.stuartsutcliffeart.com/">Stuart Sutcliffe</a>&#8217;s hair in 1961 (and <a href="http://www.genesis-publications.com/books/fab/jl.jpg">Lennon</a> reportedly laughed at it), she created a look and style, that combined with Sutcliffe&#8217;s life and interests, has lasted almost 50 years. The birth of British cool.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Birnie Blunt]]></title>
<link>http://breakingtherulessouthend.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/birnie-blunt/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>breakingtherulessouthend</dc:creator>
<guid>http://breakingtherulessouthend.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/birnie-blunt/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Birnie a Mod in the mid 1960s “You may not think so… but you’re walking around in a uniform. You don]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB">“You may not think so… but you’re walking around in a uniform. You don’t know it, even your private clothes is a uniform”.</span></em></p>
<p><em></em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><em>“The mods were gentlemen or thought they were… And you had the rockers who were ‘greasemonkies’… because they were all on motorbikes, and dirty and greasy and always taking their motorbikes apart. Whereas the mods had scooters.</em></span></p>
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<li><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB">They had two kinds of shoes, which were either what we call winkle pickers, which were very pointed, which you can still get nowadays, or ‘chisels’, which were pointed but chopped off. </span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB">And then clothes, the trousers would be very tight fitting, the jacket would be buttoned right up to here, about three or four buttons, all nice colours. </span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB">And the ones that normally rode the scooters, the Lambrettas, vespers, would have what they called a parka. It’s a coat and it has a hood. They were the original hoodie. They used to have fur round the edge.”</span></em></li>
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“It was an experience that was very good. Because I enjoyed that time. But yo</em><em>u were able to learn from it… you learn from these things and you’re able to move on, and that’s why at the age of twenty I was able to turn my back on it and walk away&#8230; I went into the Youth Service. I found that working with them was a lot better than working against them”.</em></span></p>
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