into other fashions throughout the world. Harajuku is also a large shopping district that includes luxury international designers, Harajuku native designers, and affordable shops catering to youths. Contents [hide] * 1 Location * 2 History * 3 Styles * 4 Impact * 5 See also * 6 References * 7 Further reading * 8 External links [edit] Location Girls at Harajuku Station on a Sunday afternoon Rockabilly dancers in Yoyogi Park Harajuku is an area between
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you are talking about Shakespeare, Shaw or the modern impromptus popular on the world’s stages today, plays or dramas have had a long and enduring history in the world of Art and Literature. Defined as a form of literature wherein a group of actors exchange dialogues in a sets or scenes, the earliest recorded play was performed way back in 2000 B.C. in ancient Egypt. Thousands of years later, the play has evolved, with each culture
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While she may have done this because it would have been popular among the people of her time, it has turned out that works like An American Girl have become more than just entertaining or pleasing to look at. Instead, what they have become are beautifully made records of history that offer later generations a first hand account of America’s past. It is crucial to American culture and society that contemporary artists do not just create art using subjects of the past
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Germanys past. The name Krautrock originated as a joke against the music and Germany’s culture because people were not approving of it. The term went through phases of approval and dislike. At one point artists were ashamed to be labeled a Krautrock group. The styles that characterize the Krautrock movement are very eclectic; it is described as rock, and electronic, and psychedelic, the list goes on. The history of the movement is just as colorful as the music itself. The lyrics of the songs became
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gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound. The origin of the term of was most likely derived from mysticism involving blue indigo, which was used by many West African cultures in death and mourning ceremonies where all the mourner's garments would have been dyed blue to indicate suffering. Blues has evolved from the unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves imported from West Africa and rural blacks into
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Shakespeare, the famous English poet behind plays like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Shakespeare’s plays have managed to gain and maintain cult followings for hundreds of years. Shakespeare is arguably one of the biggest and most notable names in literary history thanks to his extensive contribution to the English theatre. With such great influence and cultural reach comes
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Tattoo History In 3000 B.C. during the Late Stone Age, a man around the age of 45 or 46 died while walking near the present-day border between Austria and Italy. He lived to the south of the Alps near Lake Garda, in what is now known as northern Italy. This ancient man is called Ice Man, and he has some of the earliest known tattoos. Ice Man has tattoos of stripes and crosses in “strategic locations on the body” (Othmar), such as his calves. While his tattoos are invisible to the naked eye, using
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IS HIP HOP DEAD? Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………..2 1.FOOTSTEPS/ BRIEF HISTORY ……………………………………………………….3 2.THE HIP HOP GAME/ INDUSTRY ………………………………………………….7 3. UNDERGROUND ………………………………………………………………………..10 5. SAMPLING …………………………………………………………………………………11 6. CREATIVITY IN THE TWO WORLDS ……………………………………………..13 7.SALVATION …………………………………………………………………………………16 CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………………………17 BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION The phrase “Hip-Hop
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to be with. The trending vampire craze is a big part of America’s culture today. From television to books to movies the once evil vampire is now a fantasy for most women. These vampire characters may be murderers, they may be deceitful, but through all of the blood and gore we still desire them. What does it say about our culture today that the ideal man for a woman is a violent, murderous, yet gorgeous vampire? As a form of popular art, the CW series The Vampire Diaries reflects American women’s
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Music, Drama and Dance Chinese Music Chinese music has a very long history. In the primitive society, about four to five thousand years ago, dances and songs had already occurred. This can be prove by a excavated cultural relic - an egg-shaped wind instrument called Xun (ocarina) which made of pottery clay with six holes which believed it is from the Neolithic Stone Age. The evolution of musical culture in Chinese history was begun to develop rapidly and successfully in the Zhou Dynasty (11th century-256
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