{"id":272504,"date":"2021-06-12T00:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-in-the-80s-changed-music-and-launched-madonna-run-dmc-more\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T00:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:22:37","slug":"nyc-in-the-80s-changed-music-and-launched-madonna-run-dmc-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-in-the-80s-changed-music-and-launched-madonna-run-dmc-more\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC in the \u201980s changed music \u2014 and launched Madonna, Run DMC, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC in the \u201980s changed music \u2014 and launched Madonna, Run DMC, more<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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How did disco sound when it died? In 1980s New York, it disapp<\/a>eared in a melodic revolution of hip-hop beats and rock riffs that helped fuel the rise of contemporary music.<\/p>\n

Now, a just-opened museum exhibit explores the peak years of this musical renaissance, which changed the local cultural landscape \u2014 and eventually found its way to a global stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York, New Music: 1980-1986<\/a>,\u201d on view at the Museum of the City of New York, shows visitors how it all happened \u2014 thanks to emerging genres, new collaborations and the power of television. Another factor: a slow transition out of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, which meant that New York was still affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat allowed a lot of artists to be freely creative and not have to also worry about making music as a career \u2014 and so people could be a little more experimental,\u201d said Sean Corcoran, 47, the exhibit\u2019s curator. \u201cIn the end, what we see is a lot of meeting and sharing of ideas across different communities \u2026 we thought that was a very New York story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The exhibit, which just opened at the Museum of the City of New York, highlights 14 moments that changed music forever.<\/figcaption>
Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those communities included uptown Manhattan and The Bronx, where hip-hop thrived. Downtown, the rock scene ruled. Soon, thanks to adventurous artists and cutting-edge NYC clubs, they started mixing. <\/p>\n

The exhibit uses photos, video clips and more to focus on this era, highlighting 14 moments that changed music forever. <\/p>\n

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Funky 4+1\u2019s performance on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d remains historic, as it was the first time a hip-hop group ever performed on national television.<\/figcaption>
NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of them \u2014 accompanied with group photos and a concert flyer \u2014 recounts Bronx hip-hop group Funky 4 + 1\u2019s performance on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d on Valentine\u2019s Day 1981. <\/p>\n

Not only was it the first time hip-hop artists appeared on national television, it was also made possible by Blondie\u2019s Debbie Harry. That evening, as the show\u2019s host and musical guest, she ceded some of her screen time to the group, introducing them as \u201cher friends from The Bronx,\u201d and \u201camong the best street rappers in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n

It helped propel the hip-hop genre, which originated in New York, from local block parties and clubs to a much wider audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat illustrates the idea of a downtown group, a rock group, being interested in the music that was coming from uptown and The Bronx,\u201d said Corcoran. <\/p>\n

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The exhibit features multiple photos of New York\u2019s greatest musical names, like Cyndi Lauper.<\/figcaption>
William Coupon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a huge proponent of hip hop, Harry didn\u2019t leave it just there. In 1977, she went to The Bronx to see the DJ Grandmaster Flash do a set. After meeting him, she reportedly told him, \u201cI\u2019m going to write a rap about you on my next record.\u201d Her 1981 \u201cRapture\u201d single kept that promise, which Corcoran refers to as an example of the \u201ccross-pollination that\u2019s happening in the studio at the time.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFab Five Freddy told me everybody\u2019s fly,\u201d rapped Harry, \u201cDJ spinnin\u2019 I said, \u2018My my.\u2019 Flash is fast, Flash is cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just hip-hop and rock defining music in the 1980s. Another underground sound \u2014 electronic, Bronx-originated \u201cfreestyle\u201d \u2014 launched one of the world\u2019s biggest stars. <\/p>\n

\"The
The exhibit highlights the peak years of New York\u2019s musical renaissance.<\/figcaption>
Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Madonna was big in the downtown club scene, and she introduced freestyle to more ears as she rose to fame in the early \u201980s. The Michigan native held her debut performance at the Danceteria club on Dec. 16, 1982 \u2014 another featured moment in the exhibit \u2014 which soon helped her become a household name.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt speaks to the idea of this young woman coming from Detroit to New York to make it, and make it she did,\u201d said Corcoran.<\/p>\n

All the while, New York City artists found a friend in a new network that began spreading their distinctive sounds even farther. The exhibit\u2019s opening comes two months before the 40th anniversary of MTV\u2019s premiere, and acknowledges its part in catapulting emerging \u201980s New York names \u2014 Madonna among them \u2014 to global fame. <\/p>\n

\"MTV
MTV helped launch New York groups, including Run-DMC, to stardom.<\/figcaption>
Janette Beckman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blondie\u2019s \u201cRapture\u201d was the 48th video aired on the Aug. 1, 1981, MTV launch \u2014 the first to include a rap portion. In 1984, Run-DMC, (formed in Queens three years earlier) had its \u201cRock Box\u201d debuted as the network\u2019s first hip-hop video by a hip-hop group. As an homage, the exhibit includes rare early network interviews with both Madonna and Run-DMC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want people to come away from the exhibit with is a greater sense of how important the music that was created at this time was,\u201d said Corcoran. \u201cThis moment of the early \u201980s was truly groundbreaking and had a global impact on music for the next 30 to 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave., at 103rd Street;\u00a0MCNY.org<\/a><\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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