Tag: The Get Down

• The Let Down: Netflix’s Ambitious Take on the Birth of Hip Hop Falls Flat

  The 2015 Netflix trailer for the Get Down gave us a glimpse of 1970’s New York and the birth of hip hop with the fire and drama you would expect from a Baz Luhrmann production.  When the show launched August 12, they managed to deliver on lush cinematography, stunning style and familiar hip hop samples, but well after an…

  cultureshockart

  August 16, 2016

  Music, new york, Pop Art/Culture, Street Art, Uncategorized

  1970s, Disco, Hip Hop, Netflix, New York, The Get Down

• SUPERNOVA: The Rebirth of Disco

  

  I have a slight obsession with disco.  I honestly don’t know where it began but I’ve loved it since I was a little girl.  Because of my love for disco, I get very defensive when it is routinely dragged as a vapid musical art form. WHY DO PEOPLE HATE DISCO? My quest to answer this…

  cultureshockart

  August 10, 2016

  Art, black history, Fashion, hip hop, Music, new york, Photography, Uncategorized

  Disco, House, music, New York, Studio 54, The Get Down