Thursday, 20 March 2014

Lecture on subculture and style notes


Definition of subculture is a group of people with culture which differentials them.from the larger culture e.g. steam punk, goth,
Downtown and z boys 2001 film.
Role of female skaters
Ian Borden 'performing the city'
This is when skateboard became more political with using the city as a playground so a hand railing which is used for safety becomes the reverse role and becomes a rail to be grindend on.
Re using space which was once "crap into a nice area for skaters but it does look like a area before you go into a shopping area l.
Though sub culture and lords of downtown film showing that it creates a new way of life and a new family
Parkour freerunning
Pretty much the city is the playground,
Jump London. Yamasaki???. 
Graffiti art/ subculture, nancy McDonald
Lv the wall its just a word it doesn't define if you are black or white male female its just a word.
This allows people to escape who they really are there and a lot of female graffiti writers project there views ether political or.sexually, this shows a completely different way life.
Female subcultures are hidden but sometimes they come out very strong such as biker girls and in Japan/China lotia, mod girl.
Quadrophenia film in 1979 looking at the life after the working day and creating this other life.
Though this we find the different levels from the hard core over the top to people just looking like them and being fake, because its easy to copy hard to be that something.
Happy girl.
Middle class girls before they settle ect. But this had a effect of the good and bad happy girls.
Riot grrrl mid 1990's
Punk girls doing the punk thing really, nothing more or less.
What makes something a true subculture?
With a lot of things there is a style for whatever it may be e.g. grunge was a style with no meaning, compared to punk in the 90's but if it is a true subculture it becomes dead or finished depending on how much effected things became that's why punk is dead but goth is alive because punk got out of hand, goth just sticks with it self and some places such as whitby has goth weekend which embraces the subculture.
Subculture and punk made the safety pin turn into something else, buy using it to piece the ear.
The hoodie is a example as it has become a evil thing especially if its black with no logo on it.
Teddy boy culture was a way to escape claustopiha in the family house.
Skin heads (personally hate this the most) this is England film. (brooks film) the film explores the difference between the skin head culture and political and national.
Post subcultures in a rapid proliferation of images fashions and lifestyles it is un surprisingly difficult to pinpoint a subculture.

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