Definition of subculturenounA cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture:in what ways does the social environment predispose certain individuals to join delinquent subcultures?
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/subculture
The word "variance" is key here I believe, personally from the age of 12 I grew up as part of what is seen as a skateboarding subculture. Being part of a small community which over years has grown from the early 2000's into a global multi million pound industry with professionals worth upwards of $15 million, Unkown. Richest Skateboarders. Jan 2013. Unknown. 10/02/12 <http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/category/athletes/skateboard/> shaped my very personality at this point in my life. At 26 I feel that I have no regrets growing up as part of a cultural group that is seen, or was seen to have a difference of opinions and views to a world that is designed to do the best for its citizens.
Todd Swank...
http://xgames.espn.go.com/skateboarding/article/8836397/the-differences-mom-pop-skateshops-mall-stores-online-webstores-personal-experiences
Live Brief
I also feel compelled to place my submission for a Live brief which is based on Hip-Hop, classes as a subculture.
Entry boards
Lecture Notes
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Zepher Boys)
2001 documentary film directed by Stacy Peralta. (Pro Skateboarder)
Craig Stecyk - Filmed
Story of a group of California teenage surfer/skateboarders and their influence on the history of skateboarding.
Sean Penn Narrates, explains the influence of surfing in early skateboarding and skate street culture.
Zepher skateboard team was notall male.
Mix of original photography from the time and unto date documentary footage to investigate the Zephyr skateboard team.
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Eventually becomes more competitive and sponsorships evolve into full proffessional careers.
Financed by Vans in part
existing spaces within the city are used in a new artistic and expressive way.
The curves of the swimming pool seen in modern day skating today.
Original subcultures have now become corperate and few independent companies exist which were founded by skateboarders such as Lakai and DC.
Lakai is still independent however a multi million dollar company. DC has become high corporate mixing with the likes of Quicksilver, another pre-owned independent company, as such, the company is now a multi-discipline brand with lifestyle sponsorships rather than sporting sponsorships.
Lakai is still independent however a multi million dollar company. DC has become high corporate mixing with the likes of Quicksilver, another pre-owned independent company, as such, the company is now a multi-discipline brand with lifestyle sponsorships rather than sporting sponsorships.
www.lakai.com
www.lakai.com/team/carroll
www.dcshoes.com/uk/en
Lords of Dogtown is a 2005
biographical film directed by Catherine Hardwicke
written by Stacy Peralta.
The film is based on the story of "The Z-Boys"
“Skateboarders do not so much temporarily escape from the routinized world of school family and social conventions as replace it with a whole new way of life.” (Borden:2001)
People in the film discuss importance of the social interaction.
Parkour and freerunning are similar and carried out in cities and athletic arenas,
Many of the movements shown in pop cultural images and videos look simple , dance is similar to free running.
Like many expressive activities in urban areas these activities are illegal.
Parkour in movies
Freerunning is freedom of movement and pose, not just performing large and tricky jumps.
Yamakasi
The film demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi
battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto.
They use parkour to steal from the rich in order to pay off medical bills for a kid injured copying the group.
Yamakasi group deny the differences and say: "parkour, l'art du deplacement, free running, the art of movement... they are all the same thing. They are all movement and they all came from the same place, the same nine guys originally. The only thing that differs is each individual's way of moving".
The story creates a group of superheroes almost who fight in the ghetto.
Graffiti - a subcultural activity as it is a way of claiming ownership to a public space
Fluid space such as public transport or static space like street corners etc in and around the city
A way of claiming the public back to the individual
Nancy Mcdonald
"Here (on the street) real life and the issues which may divide and influence it, are put on pause. On this liminal terrain you are not black, white rich or poor. Unless you are female, ‘you are what you write’."
Prime
"I mean I’ve met people that I would never have met, people like skinheads who are blatantly racist or whatever. I can see it in them and they know we know, but when you’re dealing on a graffiti level, everything’s cool and I go yard with them, they’d come round my house , I’d give them dinner or something. "
He's saying that graffiti kind of erases the traditional borders.
Swoon
Street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Moved to New York City at 19
Specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures.
Studied painting at the Pratt institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999.
Swoons work is politically motivated and projects are seen in areas that are in need of urban regeneration and attention.
“In the meantime there was a lot of attention coming my way for being female, and it just made me feel alienated and objectified, not to mention patronized. ‘Look at what girls can do-aren’t they cute?’ To hell with that shit. I don’t want it.”
Mod Girls
A morphus style appearing.
Neat and Tidy fashion unlike the biker 'scruffy' culture.
The girls had short hair.
This fashion allows it to fit in to the school and work routine without attracting too much attention
Girls have a status within the culture without being attached to, and seen as, reliant on males.
Part time jobs meant money to buy the clothes and socialise more.
Mod culture springs from working class teenage consumerism in the 1960’s in the UK
Teenage girls worked in cities in service industries for example
Mc Robbie and Garber note that "The fashion was neat tidy and unthreatening therefore fitted into the school home work routine without attracting attention"
Short hair, thin frame and unisex nature of the culture meant that attention from cultural commentators begins
Brook clinics make the Pill available in 1964
swinging london in the 60's begins
The culture was more about belonging to a group identity than individual expression.
Quadrophenia (1979)
Displays tension between mods and rockers
Brighton bank holiday weekend culture
"London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', he feels free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world."
www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/plotsummary
Hippy girl
Subcultural stereotype , middle class
Idea born from a University education and finding yourself, personal expression before settling down.
Good hippy (flower girl) vs. bad hippy (rocker style)
Riot Grrrl
mid 1990's onwards sees an underground punk movement based in the greater Pacific Northwest
not feminist but they represent similar values by covering series issues like rape and domestic abbuse
anti authoritarian approach influenced by late 70's early 80's female punk rockers.
Riot Girl subculture
feminist movement
name comes from something said referring to the Mount Pleasant Race Riots in 1991
All zines started to be influenced by posters and graphic design by the Dadaists (1920's-30's)
Grunge scene
style without the subculture/politics,
distorts even further as the 90's continue into the more media friendly Spice Girls use of the phrase 'Girl Power'
band styling of visual types, cliches and stereotypes
no empowerment but reduces young women to cartoon representations
The commodity form
Dress styles and music are turned into mass produced items for consumerist needs, clothing ripped as an anarchic anti fashion statement mass produced with rips.
I have looked into Marx's view on the commodity form when looking to add to these lecture notes, as such I stumbled across a short reading of his work by F. Dino. "What is, in fact, a social relation between people (between capitalists and exploited laborers) instead assumes "the fantastic form of a relation between things", Dino goes onto mention that "This effect is caused by the fact that, in a capitalist society, the real producers of commodities remain largely invisible. We only approach their products "through the relations which the act of exchange establishes between the products". Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Marx: On Fetishism." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Jan 2011. Purdue U. 03/01/12 <http://www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory/marxism/modules/marxfetishism.html>.
Although punk seems to challenge, mainstream ends the movement as a subculture
21st century demonisation
style provokes a response in the media such as the hoody instantly displayed as a troubled youth
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