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| | Subculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Subcultures are often defined via their opposition to the values of the larger culture to which they belong, although this definition is not universally agreed on by theorists. | | | This process of cultural appropriation may often result in the death or evolution of the subculture, as its members adopt new styles which are alien to the mainstream. | | | It may also be difficult to identify subcultures because their style (particularly clothing and music) may often be adopted by mass culture for commercial purposes, as businesses will often seek to capitalise on the subversive allure of the subculture in search of cool, which remains valuable in selling any product. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture
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| | Cultural Studies & Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style |
| | By reconfiguring existing styles and values, youth subcultures in 1970s Britain for example, resisted worsening socio-economic conditions by using these appropriated styles and values against their parents’ generation and the parent culture of which they were part. | | | According to him, subcultures form out of their replacement of one or several previous subcultures which disappear through a process which includes commodification by the establishment and media and eventual assimilation into the larger mainstream culture. | | | According to Hebdige, subcultures are actually a reworking and reconfiguration of their parent cultures. |
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http://www.mediamusicstudies.net/tagg/students/Montreal/Tendances/PitreHebdige.html
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| | Subculture as a Neo-Liberal Conduct of Life in Leisure and Consumption |
| | For the Birmingham School, the subcultural subject was a social citizen, deriving his or her power and obligations from being part of a collective body (that is, a coherent working-class youth subculture) within the productive field of capitalism. | | | Hebdige applied this aspect of hegemony to subculture by arguing that the incorporation of subculture into the mainstream culture took two forms: the commodity and the ideological forms. | | | For Muggleton, subculture as a practice of everyday life, constructs the subcultural subject as an entrepreneurial individual, who is concerned less with social contradictions (in terms of class, gender, and ethnicity) and more with self-development, self-management, and self-realization, all of which center on the theme of freedom. |
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http://www.rhizomes.net/issue10/ren.htm
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| | The Anarchist Subculture |
| | Ignoring the fact that art is a social and cultural category, anarchic artists claim that art opposes culture, but their activities create for them the role of cultural workers within the anarchist subculture. | | | (On the fringe of the subculture are numerous flyer projects almost all of which are individual projects.) I am putting off a thorough critique of consensus for a later article. | | | A subculture is a place of security, for safety, for finding social roles and systems of relationships by which one can define one's self, not a place for free explorations and encountering the unknown. |
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http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/subculture.htm
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| | Subculture FAQ |
| | Subculture groups form because of the need to escape from wider society and seek new meanings for objects - they arise out of the collective and almost spontaneous need to redefine something in wider society that provides meaning. | | | Subcultures can be viewed as popular generational forms of identification that intersect with other markers of collective identity, ie. | | | In a broad sense, a subculture is any group within a larger complex culture who have interests that vary from those of the mainstream culture. |
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http://www.sonlifeafrica.com/model/subcult5.htm
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| | A New Approach to Youth Subculture |
| | Metal and rock music, and their associated styles, became emblems of this subculture which was a youthful response to problems faced by working-class Malays - a generationally specific articulation of an alternative value system. | | | Summary: It is common, even in Australia, to identify youth subcultures (one project identified Bogans, Nerds, Skeggs, Jocks and Gothics; and other writings identified Bodgies and Widgies, Surfing Subcultures, Ockers and Disco-maniacs, Street Kids, Louts and Legends, etc.) based on their styles of dress, musical tastes, language and forms of behaviour. | | | This is bad news for the subculture theorists. |
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http://www.sonlifeafrica.com/model/subcult3.htm
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| | Sunlight and Shadow |
| | (How many of today?s Goth naysayers were part of its parent subculture in their day?) | | | The realities are these: the Gothic subculture has been around for a little more than twenty years (little Brian Warner, now known as Marilyn Manson, was still throwing spitballs on the playground at the time), and it began as more literary spin-off of 70?s Punk. | | | The early eighties saw a flourish in growth in the fledgling subculture as it further defined its intrinsic fashion, music, and attitudes. |
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http://www.whitefantom.com/goth/history.html
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| | Japanese Skinheads: The Meaning of a Subculture |
| | Although some subcultures are often the creative expression of cultural difference by marginal groups, the skinhead subculture is something completely unique, as many who find themselves immersed at age fifteen still have somewhat similar ideals at age thirty. | | | The contemporary Japanese skinhead subculture is a perfect example to the rest of the worlds subcultures, fostering unity as well as very influential musical groups and manipulating mass culture. | | | The skinhead subculture did not make a comeback until the late 1970s, mainly due to the punk explosion and the rebirth of ska (predecessor to reggae) which brought back the skinheads and also created a new identify for skinheads. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmurphy/JPT3500file/JPT.Projectfile/Jpt/Skinhead.html
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| | Glowlab: culture :: subculture |
| | Interactive events like Critical Mass and Burning Man, articles in the New York Times and movies (as a start), the potential for creating cycling friendly environments are in the artist's creative hands. | | | From the artist's site: "How Scandinavian Of Me shows a work of art in questions of investigation and formed like the artist in the part as 'tourist' with the same recognisable objects, the white T-shirt and 'how scandinavian of me', standing bare-feeted on the small heap of danish chipped bark." | | | One Block Radius is mentioned as a "psychogeographic portrait of a single Bowery block" that Marci Reaven, director of Place Matters, described the project as having the ability to "instill a sense of what we're losing". |
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http://glowlab.blogs.com/news/culture_subculture
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| | Subculture Shock |
| | The SubShock Compilation: Everyone who donates at least $5 to the station during the Subculture Shock Fundraiser gets a complimentary mix-cd containing tracks by the artists we play. | | | grendelskeeper was in fine form and did an excellent job guest-hosting Subculture Shock. | | | Subculture Shock is and has always been completely volunteer: we don't get paid, we just donate our time and effort because we love the music, and we know you love it too, as you keep tuning in every Sunday night between 10pm and Midnight. |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/subshock
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| | smh.com.au - Subculture |
| | In February, subculture is pleased to present an audience with David Attenborough, and an exclusive guided tour of the Sydney Museum's Lure of the Southern Seas. | | | us at subculture, GPO Box 506, Sydney NSW 2000 or e-mail: | | | subculture members have the chance to win one of 5 doubles passes to his sell-out event at the Taronga zoo, as well as a copy of The Life of Mammals. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/subscriptions/subculture/subculture.html
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| | Subculture |
| | In some ways, a subculture must be like any other culture: It must have an identifiable style of dress, music, art, values, etc. When a subculture is also a counter-culture, what it rejects in the super-culture is what defines it. | | | The gothic subculture is comprised of goths, many of whom, but not all, participate in the scene. | | | Gothic subculture is counter-culture to some, and simply subculture to others. |
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http://www.sfgoth.com/primer/subculture.html
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| | Furry fandom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Furry fandom is a subculture of the science fiction and fantasy fandoms. | | | Many furry fans participate in the arts, becoming amateur--and sometimes professional--illustrators, comic strip authors, painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and craft artists. | | | Primarily, the fandom produces visual art works although there are many three-dimensional sculptures, fabric pieces, stories, filk music pieces, and even photographs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_subculture
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| | Subculture |
| | In the period before World War I subculture was a small thing, social groupings of hobbyists or a matter of style and philosophy amongst artists and bohemian poets. | | | Subcultures as noise: a metaphor that possesses a deep, romantic and poetic resonance for many scholars. | | | The Usenet and BBS subculture had developed an element called Slashdot subculture which involved its own forms of ettiquette and behaviour patterns both social and anti-social and the phenomena of trolling, spamming, flaming etc. The computer subculture was also influenced by fictional subcultures of the future to be read about in cyberpunk literature. |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/Subculture.html
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| | MARVIN WOLFGANG’S SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE THEORY |
| | This implies that the subculture has some major values in common with the dominant parent culture (Wolfgang and Ferracuti, 1967: 104). | | | Basically, the subculture of violence theory holds that the overt use of violence is generally a reflection of basic values that stand apart from the dominant, the central, or the parent culture. | | | The southern subculture of violence theory suggests that individuals socialized in the South learn to approve of violence in a wide range of situations and to view violence as important in enhancing their honor or reputation (Ellison, 1991: 1224). |
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http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/wolfgang.htm
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| | Furry Art MetaFilter |
| | A thorough deconstruction of the furry subculture, from its beginnings in actual comics fandom to the "lifestylers'" trolling for tail. | | | Anyway, I'm a little confused as to whether "furry" art can be great art is even an issue, since, you know, anthropomorphized animals have been present in great works of art and literature for decades and decades now. | | | I have no doubt that many furries are talented artists with good hearts. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/37231
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| | Minneapolis Mass Suicide Linked to Gothic Subculture |
| | Minneapolis police have said that they were all active in what is known as the "goth" or "gothic" subculture, known for immersing themselves in imagery and music mainly about death, horror, and hate. | | | The names of the victims have not yet been released to the public, but they are believed to have ranged in age from 18 to 40 years. | | | Apparently the victims had met with a large group of these "darksiders" at a local park for a Fourth of July picnic. |
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http://www.gothling.com/masssuicide.php
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| | The Evangelical Subculture |
| | This subculture has its own organizations and institutions, denominations, parachurch organizations; its own magazines and radio stations and TV networks; its own schools and colleges and universities; its own celebrities; its own music industry and book stores; its own marketing and advertising worlds. | | | Both the subculture and the institutional churches turn a relationship with Jesus and his people into a participation in a religion and a lifestyle. | | | This Evangelical subculture has played a major role in setting professing Christians up for deception. |
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http://procinwarn.com/evansub.htm
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| | Masculinity in Punk Subculture |
| | This project investigates many of the myths and realities surrounding masculinity within this subculture. | | | The development of punk subculture, on the whole, is entirely a product of our postmodern times, as well as a direct result of art movements which occurred previously. | | | Subcultures like punk, provide a sense of solidarity and understanding to devotees, which on the whole, is lacking in mainstream society. |
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http://dangpow.com/~felixia/ws290.html
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| | The Furry Subculture |
| | Furry as a subculture is not based on philosophy or logic, but on a person's external behaviour, so that no matter what your beliefs are about animals and humans you will still fit in. | | | Another is UKfurcon, which whilst being about art is more of a lifestyle event. | | | The most notable European happenings are in London, and this is where we find the appropriately named LondonFurs. |
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http://www.vexen.co.uk/human/furry.html
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| | About SubCulture Array |
| | One day, well into her clubbing career, she said, "Dammit, I'm sick of seeing the same things at every store, on every site, and in every club we go to." (To which we go?) Her extra snotty friends said, "If you're gonna complain, do something about it." And SubCulture was born. | | | Subculture Array is a Los Angeles, CA based business. | | | Once upon a time, there was a girl who had done a LOT of goth/industrial/fetish clubbing (and therefore shopping) with her friends. |
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http://www.subculturearray.com/about.shtml
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| | Subculture West - Subculture West - Subculture West |
| | Subculture West peels back the veneer of ordinary media and exposes the underexposed. | | | Assuming there is a Subculture, who's participating and why do they do it? | | | And hey - is there any real difference these days between what is termed 'subculture' and the mainstream? |
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http://www.subculturewest.com
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| | New World Notes: FURRY LIKE ME |
| | Earlier I told her that I've been wanting to write about Second Life's furry Residents, and she has some advice if I were to go forward. | | | Second Life is such a rich playground for experimentation and expression, so it's not surprising that there are tonnes of 'furries', artists and creatives on board. | | | Never knew why that was, but I'm glad that SL has been so open to them. |
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http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2005/04/furry_like_me.html
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| | John Berardi - Bodybuilding Subculture |
| | I think in looking at this it is apparent subcultures are created when groups of like-minded people with similar desires unite in opposition to a social environment that views such interests as "abnormal". | | | I think that the hardcore subculture needs to separate from the farce that has become pro bodybuilding (namely the pencil-neck bodybuilding aristocracy) and simply go to where other hardcore athletes are. | | | Selling products within the pages is not, in itself offensive, but when it taints the content of every article, you have to wonder: why am I paying to read a 100-page advertisement? |
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http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/philosophy/subculture.htm
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| | the Darken Hollow - Thoughts - Furry Sociology |
| | There exists a specific subculture of people who are fond of animals in art, literature and film. | | | In conjunction with the fact that the bulk of Furries tend to be fairly young, it appears that the subculture is undergoing a population growth, accepting new members at a rate higher than older members leave. | | | One common statement heard between Furries discussing the social dynamics of the fandom is that it appears that the estimated "10% of all humans are homosexual" is reversed. |
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http://www.visi.com/~phantos/furrysoc.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Subcultures |
| | Mind Space - Virtual community formed to discuss a sustainable future, reality selection, surrounding philosophies, cyber culture, literature, alternative lifestyles and viewpoints, freedom of information, music, and psychedelics. | | | Subcultural Styles Discussion List - Mailing list regarding the theory and empirical investigation of 'deviant' subcultural styles. | | | Subkultures.net - Online community for people who don't feel part of the mainstream. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Subcultures
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| | Furries and Plushophiles |
| | Vanity Fair ran a piece last spring about the subculture of furries, "the thousands of Americans who've gotten in touch with their inner raccoon, or wolf, or fox." Vanity Fair doesn't put articles on the Internet, but a furry fan site has reprinted the piece. | | | There's much overlap between the furry and plushie subcultures (though some touchy furries consider their fandom completely non-sexual and resent the association), but there's virtually no connection between those groups and crush video fetishists. | | | At Pitch Weekly (Kansas City alt weekly), Joe Miller profiles the local furry subculture and tags along at Howl, Growl and Purr, an annual meeting of furries at a Missouri campground. |
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http://www.dazereader.com/plushyfurry.htm
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| | Ringtail.net |
| | And I have also noticed that the composition of music and danceing in the subculture for many furs is a release of emotion, stress, anger and energy. | | | That misunderstanding along with "radicals" in the subculture that often do things for attention good or negative, give many people a distorted view of "furry" both people who end up becoming an enthusiest and also those who ridicule the subculture. | | | But the fact still remains that people are attracted to the subculture becuase it has an effect on them in ways that are not easy to understand. |
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http://www.ringtail.net/what-is-furry.asp
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