To be the Music's Image

Fashion and music have always been related.  We all connect a specific music style with a particular fashion, for example when we listen Charleston music, we all think about those large and bright dresses, with sequins, tassels... In this article we are going to speak about the precise fashion leaded by Rock, Pop and Rap.

Rock

Considered the beginning of modern music, Rock was born in the U.S.A. in the 50’s. At the same time, Rock and Roll grew up.
When we think about Rock, and the people who likes it, we can have many images on mind,but the most common are:

- If you think about Rock’s origins, you immediately think of Elvis Presley. This young man popularized the wig, white shocks, jeans and leather jackets. When he became the Rock's King, his style changed, and with it the Rock’s image, that now wore white suits with golden details.  The big belts, big collars and big cuffs were super chic!

- You may also think about Hard Rock. The fashion leaded by this type of music in the 70's was the Punk. With huge Mohawks, and black clothes, this way of clothing was the darkest evolution of the one started  by Elvis Presley 20 years before.

- Nowadays, many people are keen on Rock, but do not dress like Elvis or the Punks. It's becoming more and more popular to wear a T-shirt with the Ramones logo, the Rolling Stones tongue...

Pop

- At the beginning of pop, The Beatles were known as “Good Boys”, and their first followers were smart dressed (shirts and ties for boys, could be a whole suit; dresses and long skirts for girls).

- But The Beatles developed their music style, and suddenly their style became ''hippie'' they were no more “the good ones”. Their suits turned into long, linen clothes. Their followers, all under the hymn “Imagine” they opposed wars, supported the environment, and became very ''green''.

- Nowadays the most common music between teenagers is pop. Although pop has developed and has many divisions (like synth-pop, electro-pop...) there isn’t a precise image of the pop fans, although it is true that all the singers (girls) are supposed to be young, pretty, and act as a sex symbol and the boys bands have to be handsome and young too.

Rap

At the moment, rap is becoming more and more popular between young people who want to transmit a lot in a song, usually as a rebellion. Although the image of a rapper is continuously changing, the most common is a boy with baggy clothes and a cap, one of the best representations is Eminem.

In the XX century, apart from the big groups made, what really happened is a huge mix of music styles, new fashions, also the people tried to make a connection between music and fashion, as an example, and as a large list we can say:

Hip-Hop, Rock (Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones), Dance Pop, Jazz, Rap (Spike Lee), Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Techno, Canción Latina (Reaggeton), Punk (Sex Pistols, the Vibrators), Heavy Metal (Yard Birds, The Who, AC/DC), Folk (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Alan Stivell), Soul (Wilson Picket, Steve Wonder, Marvin Gaye), Reggae (Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley), Disco (Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Bee Gees)...