The Velvet Underground

Extended Essay English Language and Literature “To what extent did The Velvet Underground & Nico's 'Banana album' relate the social, political and cultural landscape of its time and how?” Arthur Vandervoort: (Candidate Number) Supervisor: Jonathan Jones Session: May 2015 Word Count: Citation Style: Chicago Abstract: Table of Contents Page 1 Title Page 2 Abstract 3 Table of Contents 4 Introduction 5 “Not since the Titanic ran into that iceberg has there been such a collision as when Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable burst upon the audiences at The Trip Tuesday. For once a Happening really happened, and it took Warhol to come out from New York to show how it’s done.” Novelist and Eastern thought expert Nancy Wilson…

” “Lithium” and “In Bloom,” the 1991 album led to other punk and grunge bands being scouted by major labels, as well as inspired other bands to follow in Nirvana’s musical footsteps. Number Six: The Who, ‘Who’s Next’ Even though The Who released the their extremely successful first rock opera, Tommy, a year earlier, it is their fifth studio album, Who’s Next, that is considered their best. Featuring the hits “Baba O’Riley,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “Behind Blue Eyes,” the band’s inclusion…

multimedia spectacle entitled ‘Exploding Plastic Inevitable.’ Simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, it was a series of performances established Warhol between 1966 and 1967. Originally called ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound,’ it played in theaters in Early ’66, which was VU and Nico accompanying a 70-minute long silent black and white film. As the idea evolved, it was advertised as the ‘new sound’ of the Velvet Underground with Nico, and the band played the soundtrack…

interesting to me as this underground paper seems much akin to the Samizdat publication but on a smaller scale. Students would often bring these articles to student protest during what was known as the Solidarity movement. As the Orange Alternative became an actual group, students would participate in events called ‘Happenings’ these events were largest in the late 80’s contributing to this large carnival of revolution in Central Europe. The Happenings were critical to the destabilization of…

WHAT IS A RED VELVET CAKE? A RED VELVET CAKE IS BASICALLY A CHOCOLATE CAKE THAT WAS DYED RED. I PERSONALLY LOVE MAKING THIS AND I HOPE YOU DO TOO!THERE IS A LOT OF HISTORY BEHIND JUST A SIMPLE CAKE.Red Velvet was the “signature cake” of New York City’s Waldorf Astoria in the 1920s, and was very popular in Canada, during the 1940s and the 1950s . This cake was very popular, therefore a woman who really liked this cake decided to ask for the recipe and the chef gave it to her . Later the chef…

This woman told her about the Underground Railroad and influenced her to leave Maryland. Harriet felt that running away was her only choice because her husband stole her money and her master would not let her buy her freedom. She had no reasons to stay there. Thus, she started her journey north. Slaves had to go north if they wanted to escape. In the north, there were free states in which slavery was not allowed. In the beginning of her journey, a kind gentleman helped Harriet across a river by…

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that changed the course of history forever.Resistance efforts were what kept many people in concentration camps hopeful, knowing there are groups of people making a difference and fighting to liberate them.Mala Zimetbaum was a courageous and impressive women that never lost sight of what she believed in. Mala Zimetbaum devoted herself to help the prisoners at Auschwitz. She was born in Poland in 1918 but she was a Belgian women. She was the youngest of…

“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.”(“Sojourner Truth”)An activist and reformer, escaped slave Sojourner Truth worked unceasingly to contribute to the advancement of the abolitionist movement and equality for all. Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth, originally named Isabella Baumfree, faced many difficulties in her life. At the…

“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.” This was a quote that Harriet Tubman once said to herself. She was also one of the most effective person on fighting for human rights. Cesar Chavez was also important to changing human rights. Harriet Tubman and Cesar Chavez should always be thought about when talking about leaders that fought for human rights. Cesar…

Freedom Quilts Are the Freedom Quilts real? Two historians say African American slaves may of used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named wagon wheel, tumbling blocks, and bear paws appear to have contained secret messages that helped direct slaves to freedom. The code "was a way to say something to a person in the presence of many others without the others knowing," "It was a way of giving direction without saying, 'Go northwest.'" The seamstress would…