Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
In this week, I try to tale about Subcultures. Subcultures are characterized by a total lifestyle, often involving parody of the dominant culture: the `moods’ parodied the trappings of the upwardly mobile. Skinheads parody the model worker, rejecting one of the major postwar myths – that Britain is a classless, contented society where everyone has a place. They also, however, marginalize black culture, which properly belongs at the centre of Britain’s postwar music. Reggae, still the dominant music of poor blacks, turns the sordid realities of poverty and exile into what Jean Genet called `signs of grandeur’. Black aspirations to be assimilated into a new middle class were rejected in favor of dreadlocks, tams (knitted woolly hats) and ganja (marijuana). Punk undermined the idea of the lone creative artist. Rather than setting up an alternative philosophy like reggae, punk confronted the whole value system of the dominant culture. Dress and body decoration were parodic of conventional style, often using materials recovered from the waste systems of modern society. Finally, the spiky hair and safety pins mimicked the extremes of display and disfigurement entailed in the pursuit of high fashion.“Ethnic” music is the sounds of a usually exotic and supposedly isolated culture. Techno has all the features of a subculture, in language (obscenity, codenames etc.), dress (baggy trousers, peaked caps, basketball shoes) and resistance to the status quo (raves, E-taking etc.).Women singers such as Chrissy Hinde and Sinead O’Connor are more in control of their images, and therefore of their lives, than other female icons.
Reference list
http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/cb_Culture.html
http://www.subculture.it/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture
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