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Tastemakers & Earthshakers
About Tastemakers & Earthshakers
"Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943 – 2016" is a multimedia exhibition that traverses eight decades of style, art, and music, and presents vignettes that consider youth culture as a social class, distinct issues associated with young people, principles of social organization, and the emergence of subcultural groups. Citing the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots as a seminal moment in the history of Los Angeles youth culture, the exhibition emphasizes a recirculation of shared experiences across time, reflecting recurrent and ongoing struggles and triumphs.
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Boulevards have the practical function of ordering commerce and traffic, but they are also displays of a city’s identity where culture, in its flow, is publicly shaped and performed.
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Which songs shaped your youth? Eight Southern California tastemakers share the sounds that have influenced them — the music that underscores the region's kaleidoscopic youth cultures.
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The 1980s backyard party scene/experience seemed to have been for anyone who wanted to listen to music, dance, have a drink, meet people and have a good time.
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LGBTQ bars and clubs will always be important and necessary. Chico, a working-class dive in Montebello, has been proudly flying its freak flag since 1999.
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The early and deep presence of Chicano musicians and fans helped define the sound of the Southern California popular music scene.
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Participants of pachuco culture were not just male, youth or Mexican American. The history of the culture includes a number of complexities.
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