Laborwave
Laborwave is an artistic and musical style popular in communist and other leftist online spaces. Appearing in the later part of the 2010s, laborwave combines the futuristic style of the wider vaporwave genre with socialist imagery and nostalgia to create a unique style which contains an anti-capitalist, revolutionary message which appeals to younger demographics in particular.
Description
Laborwave is characterized by its focus on themes such as class struggle, anti-capitalism, Marxism and proletarian revolutions, commonly featuring socialist symbols like the red star or the hammer and sickle. Labor music often consists of slowed-down versions of popular songs from socialist states like the Soviet Union and China, using similar instrumentation to vaporwave music. Its visual component of consists of retro-futuristic imagery, including neon colors or palm trees, with references to communist symbology or imagery associated with communist or other left-wing figures like Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Enver Hoxha, or Kim Il-Sung. Non-communist figures such as Hugo Chávez, Bashar al-Assad or Muammar Gaddafi have been also depicted in laborwave works.[1]
See also
External links
- r/LaborwaveAesthetics, a Reddit community dedicated to promoting laborwave
References
- ↑ Leonardo Galletti (June 11 2019). "The Rapid Proliferation of 'Laborwave' and What it Means" Medium.