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Music and fashion
- HippieThe word hippie emerged from the jazz slang of 1940s Harlem, where musicians used terms like hip and hep to describe someone who was sophisticated or…
- DiscoIn the late 1960s, a new sound emerged from the urban nightlife of New York City and Philadelphia. This music grew from African-American, Latino…
- EmoIn 1983, a band called Rites of Spring formed in Washington, D.C., playing music that sounded like hardcore punk but felt different.
- New wave musicSeymour Stein launched a campaign in October 1977 to replace the word punk with new wave. He was the founder of Sire Records and believed that calling bands…
- Cultural impact of the BeatlesIn late 1963, the British press coined the term Beatlemania to describe a phenomenon that had never been seen before. The word first appeared widely after…
- Scene (subculture)The year 2002 marked the first known use of the term scene queen, a label older hardcore musicians used to mock attractive women they believed joined the…