revival
As Revival (Engl. For "revival", "renewal", "awakening", and "Renaissance") refers to the resurgence of a fad of the past. The term is particularly widespread in pop music and jazz . But it is also often used in the visual arts and other branches of culture, as well as in the fashion industry.
A revival is usually accompanied by a renewal of the aesthetics of art , fashion or music styles that are becoming modern again. Some revivals are also launched from the industry in the sense of positioning (marketing) .
A “band revival” is the “revival of a band” that had previously disbanded, with the same or modified members.
When musicals and other popular forms of theater means Revival the resumption of a piece, after it did not go more on the stage a long time. This often happens in a new direction and modern equipment. Revivals are as complex as new productions. They only pay in the costs if they can be played en suite for a longer period of time . Therefore, revivals are often preferred to new productions in order to minimize the risk. Musicals that experience numerous revivals are often also known as film musicals such as Grease (1971) or The Rocky Horror Show (1973).
In English , the term “revival” also describes neo-styles in architecture and art history ( neo-Gothic , neoclassicism ) or religious revival movements (e.g. the Great Awakening in the United States ).
Examples
- The Dixieland revival in the 1950s, when it hit the charts again in Europe. In the 1970s, Dixieland was standard in the repertoire of Uncle Pö in Hamburg .
- The so-called "eighties revival" at the end of the 1990s and especially at the beginning of the 2000s, when styles of the 1980s (such as New Wave , New Romantics or the New German Wave ) became popular again in pop music . The phenomenon was also partly visible in fashion. In this case there was also a renewal of the aesthetics of the 1980s, especially in electro-pop , in which newly emerging bands embellished the old sound with new elements.
- The science fiction revival in cinema in the 1990s, which renewed the aesthetics of classic science fiction films by integrating computer-generated special effects (e.g. Independence Day or Matrix ) and thereby creating new ways of expression.
literature
- Marcello Sorce Keller: Piccola filosofia del revival . In Goffredo Plastino (ed.): La musica folk. Storia, protagonisti e documenti del revival in Italia . Il Saggiatore, Milan 2016, pp. 59-106.