Tag: Nineteen Hundred Seventies

India’s Early Electronic Music From the ’70s Is Finally Being Released

A trove of tapes discovered in a cupboard at the country’s National Institute of Design showcases artists composing early synth recordings on their own terms.

The Year Lou Reed Gave Up on Music

Between quitting the Velvet Underground and writing “Walk on the Wild Side,” the singer endured a long stretch of doubt, frustration and failure.

Korean Experimental Art Gets a Star Turn at the Guggenheim

A Guggenheim exhibition shines a light on a remarkable but lesser-known art scene in South Korea that thrived in the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s.