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This project is the fusion of the 70s disco and batik. This combination allows batik to be used in a different way rather than being used in a formal garment how it is usually worn by people in Indonesia. BY creating this mixture it allows us to create fun and daring garments

Batik

The word batik is thought to be derived from the word 'ambatik' which translated means 'a cloth with little dots'. The suffix 'tik' means little dot, drop, point or to make dots. Batik may also originate from the Javanese word 'tritik' which describes a resist process for dying where the patterns are reserved on the textiles by tying and sewing areas prior to dying, similar to tie dye techniques. Another Javanese phase for the mystical experience of making batik is “mbatik manah” which means “drawing a batik design on the heart”.

2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.expat.or.id/info/batik.html> [Accessed 15 October 2021].

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70s Disco

Believe it or not, Nazis had a hand in the development of the nightclubs where disco music originated! During World War II, dance halls in Paris featured jazz music; however, regulations in Nazi-occupied France banned live music, so records were played instead.

“Discotheque” means "library of phonograph records" in French, and that term gradually came to refer to these clubs where records were the norm, rather than a band. In the early ‘60s, the word came into use in the United States, frequently shortened to “disco.”

Disco music itself evolved from different subcultures, with origins in Philadelphia’s R&B scene in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, featuring African-American and Latino musicians and audiences, and in private dance parties thrown in the underground gay community of New York. The release of Saturday Night Fever and its soundtrack in 1977 truly cemented the massive popularity of disco. The final years of the decade made huge stars of Chic and Kool & the Gang, and saw many established bands and singers turning to disco, including The Jacksons, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Diana Ross.

Brochure, 2., Brochure, D., Login, C., Lessons, P., Login, C., Calendar, A. and Gala, C., 2021. Where Did Disco Come From?. [online] Cape Symphony. Available at: <https://www.capesymphony.org/blog-news/blog/218-where-did-disco-come-from> [Accessed 15 October 2021].