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Fawcett, Hilary. "Fashioning The Second Wave: Issues across Generations." Studies in the Literary Imagination. March 1975-2010. Hilary Fawcett discusses fashion and how it effected women rights. The styles of the nineteen-seventies greatly influenced the women's rights movement. Fawcett also explores the connection between fashion to how women are percieved; she describes the fashion of her generation in the 1960s and 1970s, to the style and fashion of young girls now. This article will help me describe styles from the seventies and compare them to styles today. It will also help me explain the amount of respect clothing can give off to the public, when women are wearing different trends.

Smith, Ray A. "'70s Style: Ridiculous or Right On?" Wall Street Journal-Eastern Edition 256 October 2010. This article focuses on today's fashion shown in several fashion shows this fall. The author, Ray A Smith, notices the parallels between today's fashion shown on the runways versus the fashion shown on the runways in the '70s. Smith investigates reasons as to why many designers today bring back styles from the '70s. This article will help me understand and be able to notice the close similarities between today's fashion to the fashion of the '70s.

Vallois, Thirza. "From Art Nouveau to Art Déco." France Today 22.7 (2007): 12-14. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis article explains Art Deco's predecessor, Art Noueau, from its start in Paris. The article details founder, Hector Guimard's signature style and trademark furniture pieces. The article details how Art Noueau's look quickly began to take over the city through street signs and restaurant. The article continues to mention how Art Deco and Art Noueau are identified differently. The pictures for the article show the similarities and differences between the two styles. The article helps to explain the roots and how Art Deco has grown from them.

Martin Goldsmith. The Beatles Come to America. Hoboken, NJ., John Wiley & Sons. 2004. Questia. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This book is about the music and style of The Beatles upon their arrival in America in 1964. Goldsmith gives a narrative view into his personal experiences living as a young adult during "Beatlemania." He also explores the evolution of a fresh musical sound when The Beatles first performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The book also gives accounts of other major events in American history including: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the feminist movement, and the civil rights movement. Goldsmith gives a perfect blend of biographical sources and his own personal experiences to explore the impact The Beatles had on music, culture, and style in America. Note: To view this entire source, you must have an account with Questia.

Force, William Ryan. "Consumption Styles and the Fluid Complexity of Punk Authenticity." Symbolic Interaction 32.4 (2009): 289-309. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. The article presents a study which explores on the authenticity practices of a local punk scene, and demonstrates how punk authenticity is constructed and maintained in everyday living. It discusses the role of presenting consumption styles as a set of authenticity practices with three identified consumption styles which include the open talk and interaction that publicized the possession of punk goods, the apparent stylized presentation of punk appearance in references to what seemed to look, and the repeated display of knowledge about punk subculture. It mentions that the study has observed the punk scene at sites in southeastern city with establishments that host punk performances, and with art shows and parties that are attended by punk community. (From the EBSCO abstract.)

Vallois, Thirza. "From Art Nouveau to Art Déco." France Today 22.7 (2007): 12-14. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis article explains Art Deco's predecessor, Art Noueau, from its start in Paris. The article details founder, Hector Guimard's signature style and trademark furniture pieces. The article details how Art Noueau's look quickly began to take over the city through street signs and restaurant. The article continues to mention how Art Deco and Art Noueau are identified differently. The pictures for the article show the similarities and differences between the two styles. The article helps to explain the roots and how Art Deco has grown from them.

Davis, Mary. "Chanel, Stravinsky, and Musical Chic." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 10.4 (2006): 431-460. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010.

This article is about how Chanel change the fashion world. How she went to the streets of France to get the inpiration for her designs. The simple style was the new Chic after the war. Being comfortable took precedence over the elegance of an outfit. The article also is about how her style changed otherr aspects of modern art in the 1900s.

Wilkin, Karen. "A fresh look at Van Gogh." New Criterion 24.4 (2005): 28-32. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article scopes painter Van Gogh's drawings. His drawings are found to have many different styles. Van Gogh uses the reed pen in a lot of his drawings to create these styles. The reed pen allows him to to draw staccato lines, dots, hooks, crochets and bars to represent perceptions of light and color. The landscape in his drawings that he drew towards the end of his life showed a lot of ferocity which the article examines.

Straub, Anne. "Ruth Funk". Ornament. 2009. 33:1. 56-61. Anne Straub focuses on designer Ruth Funk who brings styles from the '70s into today's fashions. Straub explains that Ruth finds her inspiration from designs from the '70s movement, but brings her own personal style into it. This article proves that the '70s fashion movement still influences many designers today. Funk is even influenced by simple patterns from the '70s. This article will help me use examples of designers from today using patterns and styles from the '70s.

Rosen, Charles. "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven." 1 (1927): 379-512. Google Scholar Books. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article talks about Beethoven's transition from the post-Classical period into the Romantic Era. His influence on both periods is also greatly discussed. An overview of Beethoven's life as a child and his adult years is also mentioned. Beethoven's music style and the originality of his work are discussed. Mozart and Haydn, other composers of the Romantic Era, are critiqued in this article along with Beethoven.

Gower Price, Charles. "Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles." American Music 15.2 (1997) : 208-232. JSTOR. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article explores the American influences in the Beatles music. The band took in a range of influences from American mainstream pop and rock and roll musicians including: Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley. The Beatles first debuted in America on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City. The article suggests that British rock derived from American music. The article provides information of the Beatles cover on artists such as: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly. It also includes quotes from Paul McCarthy and John Lennon on how they were inspired by these artists. With the combination of so many artists and genres of music, the Beatles were able to diversify their sound so that they can relate to all of their fans.

Critchell, Samantha. "Seventies look in spring fashion mirrors modern tastes and times." DailyNews Los Angeles. Los Angeles Newspaper Group. 24 Oct. 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. In this article, written by Samantha Critchell, she compares the styles of the nineteen-seventies to today. In popular fashion shows, like ones in Milan, styles of the seventies are making a comeback. Some seventies fashion consists of high-wasted skirts, flowing shirts, long dresses, trousers, and shirtdresses. The colors and patterns are distinct, which makes this decade of fashion really stand out. This article is helpful in comparing and relating seventies fashion to today's fashion.

Meisler, Stanley. "Art Deco: High Style." Smithsonian 35.8 (2004): 56-61. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis article gives a great overview of Art Deco by including examples and history. This article explains the characteristics of Art Deco as well as briefly describes the movement leading up to it. There are several Art Deco artists named with a short description o their work. This article is a great place to start Art Deco research because it has a large amount of basic information and is therefore a great jumping off point.\n\n

White, Rene Minus. "A 70's look in fall '08 fashions". New York Amserdam News. 21 Feb 2008. 20-21. Print Rene Minus White reports on the '08 fall designs during a fashion show at the New York Public Library at Bryant Park. White describes the specific styles models wear that relate to the '70s. From the fringed bags, richly pattered skirts,and sequins on shirts, all the styles are very similar to that of the 70s. This is a useful article to help me describe the great influence the '70s has on our fashion today.

Dunn, Jancee. "How hip-hop style bum-rushed the mall." Rolling Stone 808 (1999): 54. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.

Welters, Linda. "The Natural Look: American Style in the 1970s." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. 12:4 (2008): 489-510. This source focuses on the "look" identified on women in the nineteen seventies. Linda Welters, the author, describes the seventies appearance as natural. Welters divides the natural look into six catergories, "natural hair, natural body, natural cosmetics, natural materials, handcrafted clothing and accessories." I can use this article to compare and contrast how the natural look has continued into our generation, or how it has not. This source also gives good insight into trends seen with nineteen-seventies clothing.

McGuigan, Cathleen and Ruth Tenenbaum. "All Dressed Up for The Youthquake." Newsweek. 20 March 2006. 61-63. Both authors discuss events that led to the major changed in fashion, especially during the '60s and '70s. They discuss that generally each decade has it's own sense of fashion, however, the styles from the '70s have "recycled" themselves throughout the decades. This article will help me further explain the '70s influence on today's styles.

This article might be useful for those seeking to do a study of the evolution of punk. From the OhioLINK abstract: This article examines how older fans of punk rock articulate their continuing attachment to the music and its associated visual style.While sociological research on popular music audiences is well established, little attention has been paid to the articulation and management of fan practices of individuals beyond the age of 30. Based on ethnographic interviews conducted with older punk fans in East Kent, England, the article begins to redress this oversight in studies of popular music audiences.This involves an assessment of both the way in which articulations of punk style transgress with age from the visual to the biographical and how older punks develop particular discursive practices as a means of legitimating their place within a scene dominated by younger punk fans.

Hip-hop style, a controversial dress form associated with rap music culture in the 1990s, is analyzed and interpreted based on premises associated with structural approaches to semiotics. The semiotic system is isolated in time, and three coding operations are considered in terms of the relationships they establish between elements of the system and potential meanings ascribed to these: paradigmatic alignment (bipolar opposition), denotation and connotation (literal and extended descriptions), and figurative devices (implied figures of speech). Results reveal the structure of the system in terms of a dialectic between signs in the hip-hop system and signs in the system of conventional dress. Components of the rule system of conventional dress are exposed, and figurative language supporting the hip-hop system is described. The hip-hop system is construed as an example of a larger category of appearance-related systems designated extraordinary dress, poised in opposition to ordinary appearance forms. Implications include potential contributions to theory development. (From the OhioLINK abstract.)

This article goes through the differences between Art Deco and Art Noueau with the specific focus on lighting. The way the article picks one specific element to compare makes the difference between the two styles very obvious. One major difference is that the Art Noueau lamps needed to be turned on to be seen as art where the Art Deco lamps were pieces of art without even being in use. Several specific designers were descibed as well as their lighting pieces. The article was very interesting, because lighting is not something that is usually thought of as art but it can be if seen through an Art Deco lense.