#like its just wild that one photo can contain a shit ton of context and history and people | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

maxellminidisc · 9 months ago

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Not to mention as someone pointed out on the replies, even within the context to Jazz during that period, that haircut was absolutely influenced by Sonny Rollins. He started sporting it around '59 from what I can find, and he himself stated was done in homage to its Native roots.

🤔 says alot abt ppl assuming there was a punk movement in the 60s in France because some guy had a mohawk do people not know the mohawk hair style existed before the punk movement?????

#like Jazz imo especially free style was the grandaddy to the punk spirit #it started off as an anti establishment sound it was about rewriting the book #and people were absolutely nasty about giving it its due respect #but the difference is so much of this was influenced by Blackness and the antiblackness of the time #which to me is far more radical #punk sometimes feels so infantile in its attempts to kick at establishment #it feels more like a tantrum rather than a revolution to me sometimes #you did get sparks of something special with some of these bands dont get me wrong!!#but a lot of its messages felt so underdeveloped and i think thats like purposeful because it was more so #about youth and the experiences of youth #vs something as grand a scale as what jazz was representing like it encapsulates SO MUCH even to this day #like its just wild that one photo can contain a shit ton of context and history and people #unfortunately miss it #this is also why a bunch of beatnicks and shit were drawn to jazz #because the radical nature of it appealed to their attempts at being counter cultural and shit

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