Generation X includes those folks born between 65 and 80. But the stage was set for the new forms of art and music that defined us in the 70's. Particularly by the "deterritorialization" of cities affected by the death of manufacturing jobs and "White Flight" to the suburbs. Punk, Disco, Hip Hop, and Electro were all birthed in the 70, and not by Generation X. It was the generation in between X and the Boomers, called "Generation Jones (54-65)," that made something beautiful and new out of the urban squalor and general failure of Hippy Culture that they inherited. The famous economic down turn and stagflation of the 70's became the ground of one of the most intensive inflows of new forms of expression the world has ever seen. Let's explore the causes and conditions.

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