1940s retro movement
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The 1940s retro movement was a retro movement craze started in the late 1980s and is still continues exponentially today as of 2006. This movement features many things in 1930s, 1940s and 1950s pop culture.
[edit] Events related to 1930s/1940s/1950s nostalgia
- Movies based on in the 1940s were popular, including A League of their Own, My Dog Skip, andThe Iron Giant. Movies such as Dick Tracy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit could be considered early influences of the movement. The trend also continued into the early 2000s with the movie Pearl Harbor, but the 1940s retro movement didn't really continue in the 2000s as strong as it was in the 1990s until about 2006.
- The 1940s music style became popular in the mid to late 1990s and again the late 2000s. Green Day and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies band participated in the movement. Green Day's Hitchin' a Ride was one example of the style of music that became popular in the movement. Much of the music in the movement included music of the saxophone and had a jazz-like beat. In 2006, artists such as Chris Brown, Keysia Cole, Christina Aguilera, and the Black Eyed Peas uses styles that are a lot similar to 1940s music such as the use of trumpets and saxophones, and an occaisonal trombone. In 2006, jazz music of 1940s style was used in the Jay-Z song, Show Me What You Got. This music was also notated in the music of Christina Aguilera, especially the song Candyman.
- The Flying Toaster screensaver uses 1940s style toasters.
