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What exactly is Retro Style?
Retro style is style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the recent past. According to Wikipedia, the term retro has been in use since the 1970s to describe on the one hand new artefacts that self-consciously refer to particular modes, motifs, techniques, and materials of the past. But on the other hand, some people (incorrectly) use the term to categorise styles that have been created in the past. Retro style refers to new things that display characteristics of the past. It is mostly the recent past that retro seeks to recapitulate, focusing on the products, fashions and artistic styles produced since the Industrial…
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This Joint Is Jumping
Wearing zoot suits and skirts that twirl, Lindy Hoppers are making lots of whoopee from coast to coast Dance studios that once offered a few classes now find that they are packing in the crowds and swing dancing is the reason why. The dancers, many in their 20s, are spinning mooching and trucking with varying degrees of skill to the syncopated jump blues of Big Joe Turner and Louis Jordan. Swing dancing is enjoying a loud and rambunctious revival in nightclubs, ballrooms and dance studios. The music is raucous and high-decibel, and so are the crowds. At gyms and ballrooms, dancers too young to remember Tommy Dorsey, or even Talking…
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What exactly is Retro Style?
