8/9/2023 0 Comments Sock hop sundays![]() ![]() ![]() Some historians believe the modern teenage mindset was born out of attitudes prevalent following the Great Depression and World War II, as 20th century consumerism and the search for the American Dream took shape. To read about 1950s America is to witness this giant generational muddle in an extreme, with the older folks often baffled and horrified by the ways of the youth (despite their own Jazz Age teenage years), while at the same time helping to trigger the transition. Īs a demographic, young people's priorities, perceptions and practices typically tilt wildly from generation to generation. ![]() The characteristics we often associate with today's teens, however, like rebelliousness, obliviousness and gravitation toward cliques, didn't really go mainstream until around the time of the sock hoppers. From then on, society treated teens as a group psychologically distinct from children and adults. That started to change, though, when psychologists began recognizing adolescence as a concrete life stage near the start of the 20th century. ![]() Historically, the teenage years didn't exist, at least not to the extent that they required an appellation all their own. Party’s free and runs all night.Michael Ochs Archives/Universal Pictures/Getty Images Here’s hoping the night goes down a whole lot like that Body Rock tribute to the Native Tongues movement that Riders Against the Storm threw in May, when about 80 people crammed into Hotel Vegas’ tiny confines and rapped along to Busta Rhymes’ verse midway through A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario.”ĭoors at 8pm, with b-boys and b-girls taking to the floor around 10. “That, and making sure the bass is hitting’ hard as hell,” a detail no doubt already considered by Big Daddy Kane. Borghesi added that maintaining “a good mix of up-tempos, slow and lows, and call and responses” will be critical to keeping energy levels inside Hotel Vegas on high throughout the night. “Super dope beats, lyrics, and rapping will never fail!” “Those beats and samples undoubtedly contributed to the high level of creativity that was exploding back then, and you had great MCs as well. “Hip-hop artists in the Eighties were still able to sample all those dope funk and soul records from the Sixties and Seventies, before they changed the laws,” says Borghesi. Borghesi thought about the two styles for a minute and realized he could be throwing the same kind of party for a different kind of scene. Similarly, the two have spent the past six years of second Sundays running their soul and doo-wop-heavy Sock Hops, pushing obscure records from the Fifties and Sixties while their vast hip-hop record collections gathered dust. That’s because this weekend marks the first installment of monthly throwdown Cold Lampin’, wherein DJs Shorty Stump (towering White Ghost Shivers string-bender Westen Borghesi) and Second Liner (Breakaway Records co-owner Gabe Vaughn) spin vinyl hip-hop classics from the golden era, 1983-1993, a period best defined by artists like Black Sheep, Heavy D, De La Soul, and Big Daddy Kane. Saturday night offers little in the way of live hip-hop, but if you head to Hotel Vegas, you can groove to vintage wax like DJ Kool Herc always intended. ![]()
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