Fashion and Music OF THE 1980'S: Karina Luisa by Area I Alejandro Vivian Hugo

FASHION AND MUSIC
OF THE 1980'S

KARINA
LUISA
BY AREA I
ALEJANDRO
VIVIAN
HUGO
MUSIC
In the United States, MTV was launched and music videosbegan to have a larger effect on the record
industry. Pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,Duran Duran, Prince,Madonna,
and Queenmastered the format and helped turn this new product into a profitable business. New
wave and Synthpop were developed by many British and American artists, and became popular
phenomena throughout the decade, especially in the early and mid-eighties. Music grew fragmented
and combined into subgenres such as house, goth, and rap metal.

Michael Jackson was the definitive icon of the 1980s and his leather jacket, glove, and Moonwalk
dance were often imitated. Jackson's 1982 albumThriller becameand currently remainsthe best-
selling album of all time, with sales estimated by various sources as somewhere between 65 and 110
million copies worldwide.

Madonna and Whitney Houston were regarded as the most ground breaking female artists of the
decade. The keyboard synthesizer and drum machine were among the most popular instruments in
music during the 1980s, especially in new wave music. After the 1980s electronic instruments were no
longer popular in rock but continued to be the main component of mainstream pop.

FILM
Oscar winners: Ordinary People (1980), Chariots of Fire (1981), Gandhi (1982), Terms of
Endearment (1983), Amadeus (1984), Out of Africa (1985), Platoon (1986), The Last
Emperor (1987), Rain Man (1988), Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

The highest-grossing films of the decade are (in order from highest to lowest domesticgrossing): E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes
Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the
Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun,Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future
Part II, Crocodile Dundee,Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

TELEVISION
MTV was launched in the United States in 1981 and had a profound impact on the music
industry andpopular culture further ahead, especially during its early run in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s
include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty,Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I.,Miami
Vice, Diff'rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote,21 Jump
Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation,Night Court, Who's the Boss?, Family Matters,Quantum
Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls,Three's Company,Cheers, Growing
Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and Married... with
Children.

SPORTS
The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were disrupted by a boycott led by the United States and 64
other countries in protest of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The 1980 Winter Olympics were well remembered for the Miracle on Ice, where a young United States
hockey team defeated the heavily favored Soviet Red Army team and went on to win the gold medal.

VIDEO GAMING
Popular video games include:Turrican, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of
Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Digger,Tetris, and Golden Axe. Pac-Man (1980) was the first game
to achieve widespread popularity in mainstream culture and the first game character to be popular in
his own right. Handheld electronic LCD games was introduced into the youth market segment. The
primary gaming computers of the 1980s emerged in 1982: theCommodore 64 and ZX
Spectrum. Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom (released in 1983 in Japan) in the
United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was bundled with Super Mario
Bros. and it suddenly became a success. The NES dominated the American and Japanese market until
the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s, causing some to call this time
the Nintendo era. Segareleased its 16-bit console, Mega Drive/Genesis, in 1988 in Japan and in North
America in 1989. In 1989 Nintendo released the Game Boy, a monochrome handheld console.

FASHION
The beginning of the decade saw the continuation of the clothing styles of the late 1970s and evolved
into heavy metal fashion by the end; This included teased hair, ripped jeans, and neon clothing.
Significant hairstyle trends of the 1980s include the perm, the mullet, the Jheri curl, the flattop, the hi-
top fade, and big hair.
Significant clothing trends of the 1980s include shoulder pads, jean jackets,leather pants, aviator
jackets, jumpsuits,Diane von Frstenberg wrap dress, Members Only jackets, skin-tight acid-washed
jeans,miniskirts, leggings and leg warmers (popularized in the film Flashdance), off-the-shoulder shirts,
and cut sweatshirts (again, popularized in the film Flashdance).

Additional significant trends of the 1980s include headbands, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses (popularized
in the film Top Gun), Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses (popularized in the filmsRisky Business and The Blues
Brothers), Swatch watches, slap bracelets (a popular fad among children, pre-teens, and teenagers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s and was available in a wide variety of patterns and colors), and
the Rubik's Cube (became a popular fad throughout the decade). Girls also wore jelly shoes, large
crucifix necklaces, and braissers all inspired by Madonna's Like a Virgin video.

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