When we think of black people, black music probably comes to mind the most. From jazz to rhythm and blues to rap, black people have contributed so much to American music. in the 90's we called rap rap, but now it seems to be called hip-hop. hip-hop is not only popular among black people, but it is also loved by white people, especially young white people. Hip-hop is not only popular among black people, it is also loved by white people, especially young white people. Rap is mainly spoken, so through the power of the media, the language of black people has also entered the language of young white people, which is a perfect example of the influence of subcultures on the main culture.
In fact, Hip-Hop is technically a cultural category that came into being in the 1970s, when Hippie culture was on the wane. Of course its earlier origins can be traced back to African music, but the emergence of Hip-Hop culture in the 70's was actually an extension of gang violence, which encompassed a much broader range of content than rap. In a nutshell, there are three aspects to Hip-Hop: the first is Rap, or rap music. The second is breakdancing, or street dance. The last aspect is graffiti art, or graffiti art.
There is a lot of street culture, and almost any art on the street can be street culture. Modern street culture in the 1970s in the 20th century was developed, concentrated in Europe and the United States, especially in the United States of America, street fashion hot time zone, the emergence of street music RAB RAP (rap music), rock and roll sound and so on. There are also street dances, skateboarders and roller skaters. Accompanying the emergence of street clothes, graffiti and so on.
Nowadays, street culture breaks the tradition and dresses exaggeratedly. The image highlights the characteristics. These features are popular with young people and are spreading rapidly, taking root all over the world. In our Asia, rap groups first appeared in Japan and South Korea, then street dance troupes appeared, and then some rap groups appeared on the basis of the group can dance together and simple difficult movements.
In China, under the influence of South Korea and Japan, there was also a hip-hop trend in the late 1990s, with the emergence of dance troupes, and especially in the 2000s, there was street culture in almost every province. And a lot of people like street clothes, especially in Taiwan and Hong Kong can almost say that street dance has become the first movement and the first dance is the first choice of students. In the mainland street culture has just become popular by young people's favorite. In Hainan can be said to be the development of late. Although the development of 2 years. But still immature it.
Composition of street culture:
Clothing
Oversized clothing can be regarded as the classic style of Hip-hop culture. The origin of this style of dressing is said to be closely related to the genesis of Hip-Hop culture. The original Hip-hop culture was developed as early as the 1970s by blacks, Jews, Mexicans and other people of color in the United States at the time. At that time, the economic situation of people of color in the United States is not as superior as white people, however, small children are born more than white people, in order to let these small children do not too quickly out of clothes, so often buy a larger size T-shirt; coupled with the Hip-Hop culture of sports taste heavy, loose clothing is much more convenient.
Broad is not the whole picture of Hip-Hop wear, there is a difference in the breakdown: skateboarding friends like to wear skateboarding shoes, engaged in sports more comfortable and more wearable, and with skateboarding brand of clothing, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, EXPEDITION, DC and so on are skateboarding sporting goods in the name of brand-name; Street dance teenagers like to wear Nike, Adidas and other sports brands of simple style sneakers, showing a clean style, which Adidas shoes for playing floor action dancers love; in the street clothing brands, there are well-known ESDJ, TRIBAL, JOKER, FUBU, etc., brand-name apparel Tommy Hilfiger, POLO Sport, Nautica, OAKLEY and sports brands Nike, Adidas are also popular among dancers.
Graffiti
Graffiti, or street graffiti, is commonly found in some residential neighborhoods in the United States on alleyways or underground tunnels and subway stations. Graffiti teenagers use spray paint to paint on the wall to express their ideas, thoughts or gangs to divide the territory; from the late 1960s to the present, gradually become a kind of street art.
Graffiti kids compete with each other in graffiti contests to see who has the most artwork and who has the best reputation. They express their disdain for adult authority by "painting" their names or pen names prominently in every possible public ****ing place. They play hide-and-seek with police with paint-filled spray guns, often stolen.
They scrawled cryptic sentences on downtown walls, crude skull-like figures, faces with primitive masks, and obscene poses from children's games. Graffiti works are visual rap and jazz, an original contribution to the visual arts. As an extension of the idea of popularism, graffiti artists have mass-produced drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, murals, T-shirts, buttons, and flags.
In 2001, fashion designers coincidentally took a cue from hip-hop pop culture, and black-and-white or colorful graffiti-style pieces could be found on everything from dresses, skirts, high heels, and handbags.
Street dance
Street dance, which includes mechanical dance and breakdancing, originated from the improvisation of street dance in the United States. These street dancers are predominantly black or Mexican, and most of the popular street dance originated in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City, where some black or Mexican kids dance on the streets all day long for fun, forming various factions, and naturally developing different characteristics in the dances they perform.
Street dance is a powerful dance, full of dynamism, large range of action, requiring dancers to be in good physical condition. Moves such as one-handed handstands, forward rolls, windmill spins and back spins belong to performances with a high coefficient of difficulty, and street dance teenagers must maintain enough physical support as well as possess strong will and courage.
Some shrewd businessmen in Shenzhen have made a fortune from "street dance," which in a sense has brought about the prosperity of street dance. Some dance schools and fitness centers have started street dance classes, and business is booming. Shopping malls in the promotion of goods or celebrations, but also often ask the street dance performance, rendering the atmosphere.
Hip-Hop DJ
In 1967, a Jamaican immigrant in the United States, New York, the earliest to put two turntables and mixers together, original "brush record" (scratch) action, attracting a lot of people in the street to enjoy. DJs have been the face of pop culture ever since, as operators of record players. Of course, if you can only play CDs is not enough, you have to have a good sense of pitch and rhythm, in order to mix two different songs beautifully; a higher skill is scratch, which is also known as scraping the record, to create a sharp sound. "DMC".
Singing white
Singing white (MC) refers to the party to drive the atmosphere of the host (master of cerem ony). A good M C should be able to drive the mood of the crowd, speak to the crowd, create rhythms with vocals as well as mimic the sounds made by machines such as drums or s cratch, etc., so it evolved into rap techniques such as R ap. M C is not only a performer, but also a conveyor of the message of Hip-Hop culture. An M C with a distinctive personal color can drive the popularity of mantra, music and clothing, which can be seen in the number of black singers endorsing apparel brands.
The stunt bike
Many young people nowadays don't just use bicycles as a means of transportation to school or work, and for some, the term "B-boy" or "B M-boy" isn't unfamiliar at all.
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The correct name for B-boy is B MX, the full name being BICYCLE MOTOCROSS. It is a cyclocross sport that emerged in the mid to late 70's in the U.S. In the mid 80's B MX started to be taken to the flats and played with more tricks, higher jumps, and more excitement than skateboarding. It has hundreds of actions, the most basic of which is the static balance on the car, such as the rear wheel pointing jump, front wheel pointing jump, rubbing the wheel, set the car, floating, crossing the bridge and so on. The body of B MX is usually made of alloy, which can withstand the impact of falling from a height of several meters. There are also many special features in the design, such as the ability to make a handlebar with a 360-degree turn without being restricted by the brake line. B MX's appearance in the movie "E- T" made it a pop culture representation.
In Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, stunt bikes are categorized into three types of competitions: U-tube, flat and park. These competitions bring stunt cycling to the masses, while the heart of the sport remains in the streets.
Skateboarding
In the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, American surf music and movies led the way, and the first skateboards were introduced to the market in 1959 as people sought out the joys of land surfing in something resembling a surfboard. in the late '80s, skateboarding was revitalized in a self-help format with the emergence of sandwich wooden obstacles and street-style venues. This new generation of skateboarders began to produce star athletes of their own.
Skateboarding had a profound impact on the world's fashion culture, with athletes listening to p-unk music and wearing earthy broadcloths and nostalgic tennis shoes that were once a global trend.
Inline skating
The idea of roller skating has been around for about 300 years, beginning with a 17th-century Dutchman's attempt to nail wooden rollers under his shoes for the pleasure of skating. In 1979, an American ice hockey player found an old pair of inline skates and bought the design. From then on, inline skating became popular all over the world.
In 1984, the United States began to develop a variety of skates for different purposes, R OLLERBLADE has been the leading brand in the international flywheel industry.
Scooter
Scooter (B icman) is a new sporty product after skateboard, which can reach speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour, and this new product comes from Japan.
While we can see a few old men and women riding scooters on the streets of Shenzhen, they are not representative of street culture, which is the plaything of the young "cool" generation. A scooter is like a small bicycle, the front of which takes the structure of a bicycle, the lower part of which takes the structure of a skateboard, but it only has two wheels. If you will be the following trick, prove that you have reached the "pure fire" situation: two feet clamped to the rear wheel, two hands to grasp the front of the car, the front of the car, lifting the force, after the wheel as the center of gravity, in mid-air rotation of two circles, the powerful can be turned to three circles; or clamped to the front wheel, the front wheel as the center of gravity, cocked the rear wheel rotating
The street culture, it is very easy for people to talk about street culture, it's easy to think of HIP-HOP, and to a certain extent, HIP-HOP has indeed become synonymous with street culture as well.
HIP-HOP originated from the working class of New York's underclass, and is a spiritual embodiment of black cultural life. Stylistically there are two major genres, New York and Los Angeles. Music, dance, graffiti, tattoos, and clothing are the main components of HIP-HOP culture.Since HIP-HOP comes from a lowly background, the initial place of activity can only be the street, such as street dance, street basketball, skateboarding, and exists as a purely self-indulgent, self-expressive, and self-cathartic cultural form.HIP-HOP people have a strong and renewable sense of humor.
The HIP-HOP people are strongly recognizable, as they strut around with tape recorders, blasting loud music, with exaggerated, dazzling dance moves and always one-size-too-large outfits, proclaiming to the people with impunity: we are the HIP-HOP people.
Japanese teenagers are heavily influenced by American culture, so HIP-HOP was quickly accepted and popularized by a wide range of teenagers in Japan. However, they also made some changes, such as adding graffiti to their own country's cultural elements and words, and wearing a lot more than just the typical HIP-HOP attire with a lot of matching. The Japanese are introverted and quiet people, so the HIP-HOP people are not as flamboyant. I saw a group of street dancers outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, all boys of 12 or 13 years old, clean, dressed in skateboarding shoes and loose clothing, all wearing baseball caps, gyrating and attempting difficult moves like no one's business. HIP-HOP was originally a very ostentatious culture, but the Japanese have become very low-key here, no noisy music, no exaggerated expressions and movements, talk to each other and laughter is also quite restrained, for fear of disturbing the solemn beauty of the Imperial Palace.
As with all underground cultures, the intense and dazzling hip-hop culture has been intervened in by the mainstream entertainment industry, and with modern promotional techniques, a new mainstream culture has been formed. As early as 1994 Rap made a huge dent in popular music, and many HIP-HOP people made money and improved their lives as a result. Street dance has also gone from the streets to the bourgeoisie-filled gyms and clubs, and has become a middle-class way of daily life.
When a culture surfaces from the underground, moves from the fringe to the core, from the street to the stage, from a spiritual playground to a commercial society, it begins to lose its vitality and decline.
So essentially street culture is the culture of adolescents, because they are not bound by precepts, don't need theoretical support, and despise the business world. While adults are exhausted and overworked to succeed in their careers, they skate through the streets on skateboards with nothing to do all summer long.
Besides the hip-hop crowd, there are many other unique street cultures in Japan, such as the famous storm troopers. Young men ride motorcycles, decked out in metal jewelry, with music blasting from their car stereos, and strut around in full view of the public. In recent years, dirt bikes have become popular on the streets, and they often pop up on Tokyo's congested streets, catching a glimpse and disappearing into the traffic.
When it comes to street culture in Japan, it's impossible not to talk about a street culture that is probably unique in the world - Harajuku culture.
When Harajuku became a U.S. military base after World War II, it was only natural that young people in the area were influenced by American culture, and a group of hippies, the first Harajuku people, emerged. Today, Harajuku is known for its collection of teenagers who dress in chic, modern clothes. Harajuku has become more than just a place name, it has become a street culture. The Harajuku neighborhood has a Takeshita Road, which is the domain of the so-called Takeshita Kids, the new owners of Harajuku. These young people, no older than 20, dress in bold, novel, individualistic, and even bizarre ways. They gather on Takeshita Road every weekend from the outskirts of Tokyo to do nothing else but stand on the street and show off their outfits. They don't have a lot of money in their pockets, and they don't have designer labels all over their bodies, but they dress elaborately, avant-garde and maverick, and they have become the symbol of Harajuku culture.
Street culture and urbanization go hand in hand. When you look down from Tokyo Tower, the rows of buildings and densely packed streets are too much for the eyes to bear, but it is these streets that are the playground of Tokyo's street culture, where generations of young people have grown up. When a group of young people betrays their youth, new young people will follow, and their pure, non-commercial cultural qualities are the very source of vitality and beauty of street culture.
Japanese street life is colorful, young people's street culture is only one part of it. It is also common to see street performers in public **** places in Japan. Young people's street culture is purely a form of self-expression and self-indulgence, they don't need the approval and appreciation of others, they just act according to their own will, but street performers are different. Some street performances are planned, organized, and professional, and are often linked to local events such as dining, entertainment, and tourism. For example, a dynamic Hawaiian dance performance in front of Fuji TV is to promote Hawaii's tourist routes, and a live sculpture at Disneyland is to attract more tourists. Then there are street performances by buskers or street-performance enthusiasts that are more or less commercial in nature.
In many Japanese cities, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, there is a paradoxical unity in terms of urban culture. In Tokyo, the elegant and beautiful imperial gardens and modern architectural masterpieces, ancient temples and shrines and majestic skyscrapers, secluded alleys of hazy lanterns and the glaring neon of the bustling metropolis form a stark contrast. Tokyo is a modern metropolis while preserving its oldest traditions. This paradoxical unity is also often reflected in Japanese street culture and street performances, such as the boy who street dances in the Imperial Palace Gyoen and the violinist who sells his art at the Kannon Temple in Asakusa.
Asakusa, just the sound of its quaint name is enough to evoke thoughts of the city. It is one of the most representative old traditional areas in Tokyo. There are clean stone paths, light streetscapes, and Kannon-ji Temple, the oldest temple in Tokyo. It is as lively as a temple fair every day, with dozens of stores selling a variety of Edo-style items lining the 300-meter-long stone path from the temple's front gate to the main hall. On summer evenings, the temple is crowded with visitors, and girls in kimono and clogs can be seen walking along the stone path and praying in front of the shrine.
At the front gate of the temple, I saw a street vendor, a tall, handsome, blonde foreigner with his own stereo equipment, playing the violin to the melody on the speakers. He was playing familiar but unknown Western music with a demeanor as if he were giving a recital in a concert hall, making tourists wonder whether they should pay or not, even though he had a small bowl in front of him to put the money in. He didn't seem to care about the proceeds, but was just mesmerized by the music, standing under the old building of the Kannon Temple, playing one song after another, accompanied by tourists coming and going. At night in Asakusa, the charm of the East and the flavor of the West are so harmonious, flowing on the quaint stone road and the strings of the street performers.