Music & Pop Culture
Beginning of the Century
Art
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Books & Comics
1900 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L.Frank Baum)
1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
1908 - Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
1911 - The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
1915 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
1922 - Ulysses (James Joyce)
1926 - Winnie The Pooh (A.A.Milne)
1927 - In search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
1928 - Gypsy Ballads (F.García Lorca)
The Yellow Kid (1895-1898)
Mutt and Jeff (1907-1983)
Felix the Cat (1923)
Spanish TBO (1917)
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End of 19th Century Vaudeville
Zarzuelas became into Revista or Revue: strong sexual connotations.
Broadway musical started at the end of the 19th Century.
Some operas used social criticism over capitalism:
The Threepenny Opera - Kurt Weill (1929)
La Corte del Faraón - Vicente Lleó (1910)
"At the darktown Strutters' Ball" - Six Brown Brothers (1917)
WWII (1930's & 1940's)
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Books & Comics
1934 - The postman always rings twice (James M. Cain)
1934 - I, Claudius ( Robert Graves)
1937 - The Hobbit (J.R.R.Tolkien)
1939 - The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
1940 - For whom the bells toll (E.Hemingway)
1942 - The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
1947 - Diary of Anne Frank
1947 - A Streetcar named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
Le journal de Mickey (1934)
Flash Gordon (1934)
Prince Valiant (1937)
Action Comic - First apperance of Superman (1938)
Le Journal de Spirou (1938)
Detective Comic - First apperance of Batman (1939)
Captain America (1941)
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Drama
Broadway musical took an important place.
Oklahoma (1943)
Carousel (1945)
South Pacific (1949)
Even opera took a look on black music:
Porgy & Bess (1935)
Oklahoma! (1943) Rodgers & Hammerstein Porgy and Bess (1935) - G.Gershwin
Revolution! (1950's & 1960's)
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Books & Comics
1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
1951 - The Catcher in the Rye ( J. D. Salinger)
1952 - The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
1953 - Casino Royale (Ian Fleming)
1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien)
1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
1962 - Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
1965 - Dune (Frank Herbert)
1967 - Cien años de soledad (Garcia Marquez)
1952 - Astro Boy
1952 - Marsupilami
1957 - Gaston Lagaffe
1958 - The Smurfs
1959 - Asterix
1961 - The Fantastic Four
1962 - Spiderman
1962 - The Hulk
1962 - Iznogoud
1963 - X-Men
1963 - The Avengers
1963 - Ironman
1964 - Mafalda
1968 - Shonen Jump
1969 - Mortadelo y Filemón
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Drama
Broadway lost some of his power because of TV and movies. But people liked to enjoy fresh music at the theatre. In that time, an artist will appear to recover swing music and transform it into something softer and non-danceable: Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian Americans, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best-known residency performers.
While Sinatra never learned how to read music, he had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes".
Other countries, especially in Europe, tried to create new styles from their own traditions. This music is often included as light music:
Spain: Manolo Escobar, Nino Bravo, Joan Manuel Serrat.
Mexico: Los Panchos, Eddie Gorme, Vicente Fernandez
Brazil: Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos
France: Édith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Salvatore Adamo
Italy: Gino Paoli, Jimmy Fontana, Domenico Modugno
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Generation X (70's & 80's)
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Books & Comics
1972 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
1974 - Carrie (Stephen King)
1975 - The Book of Sand (Borges)
1980 - The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
1982 - The house of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
1987 - Patriot Games (Tom Clancy)
1988 - A brief history of time (Stephen Hawking)
1970: Conan the Barbarian
1976: Bloodstar
1976: Superman vs. Spiderman
1984: Dragon Ball
1984: TMNT
1986: V for Vendetta
1986: Watchmen
1987: Ranma Nibunnoichi
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Jesus Christ Superstar
It is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started as a rock opera concept album before its Broadway debut in 1971. The musical is mostly sung-through, with little spoken dialogue. The story is loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the last week of Jesus's life, beginning with the preparation for the arrival of Jesus and his disciples in Jerusalem and ending with the crucifixion. It depicts political and interpersonal struggles between Judas Iscariot and Jesus that are not present in the Bible.
Millennials (90's & 2000's)
Art
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Books & Comics
1991 - American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
1992 - The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
1995 - Blindness - José Saramago
1996 - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
1997 - Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone - (J. K. Rowling)
2000 - 2007 - Harry Potter Series (J.K.Rowling)
2003 - The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2005 - Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
1990: Ghost in the Shell
1991: Sailor Moon
1991: Deadpool
1992: Marmalade Boy
1992: Infinity War
1992: Carnage
1993: DNA2
1993: Slam Dunk
1994: Detective Conan
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1994: Tenchi Muyo!
1995: Naruto
1996: Onslaught
1996: Heroes Reborn
1997: One Piece
1997: Magical Pokemon Journey
1998: Vagabond
2001: Bleach
2001: Full Metal Alchemist
2003: Death Note
Drama
Rent
Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Hipsters (2010's)
Art
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Books & Comics
2010 - Inferno (A Poet's Novel), Eileen Myles
2011 - Gods Without Men, Hari Kunzru
2011 - The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
2012 - My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
2013 - What purpose did i serve your life, Marie Calloway
2013 - Tenth of December, George Saunders
2014 - Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
2014 - My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard
2015 - A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
2015 - The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
2016 - The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
2018 - There There, Tommy Orange
2010 - Kodansha shōjo manga magazine Aria.
2011 - The New 52 publishing scheme.
2013 - Lazarus
2014 - Tomb Raider
2014 - Wytches
2016 - Civil War II
2018 - X-men red
2018 - Doctor Strange Damnation
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The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy. First staged in 2011, the play makes light of various Mormon beliefs and practices, but ultimately endorses the positive power of love and service. The script, lyrics, and music were written by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone were best known for creating the animated comedy South Park; Lopez had co-written the music for the musical Avenue Q.
The Book of Mormon follows two Mormon missionaries as they attempt to preach the Mormon religion to the inhabitants of a remote Ugandan village. The earnest young men are challenged by the lack of interest of the locals, who are preoccupied with more pressing troubles such as AIDS, famine, and oppression from local warlords.