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Musical subcultures

  • 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…
  • Punk rockThe Kingsmen released "Louie, Louie" in 1963, a song that later became known as punk rock's defining ur-text. This garage band from Portland, Oregon, played…
  • MicrogenreIn 1975, a French article about historical fiction introduced the word microgenre to describe a narrowly defined group of texts connected in time and space.
  • Hip-hop cultureOn the 11th of August 1973, a high-rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the South Bronx hosted an indoor party that would ignite a global cultural…