Who are the representatives of street culture?

Street culture is also called HipHop culture, and Chinese translation is hip hop. This culture originated from African-American street rap culture in 1970s. In English, hip means hip, hop means jumping, and hip-hop means gently twisting hip. In 1990s, hip-hop culture landed in Asia and broke out in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Province. With the wave of reform and opening up, it soon spread to the mainland and developed rapidly in big cities. Hip-hop culture was originally a carrier for black people in American slums to express their anger and resistance. For decades, with the help of increasingly developed mass media, it has spread rapidly around the world. Hip-hop culture has also developed from the four basic elements of disc playing, rap, hip-hop and graffiti to skateboarding, street basketball and other performance sports. Nowadays, in large and medium-sized cities, hip-hop culture can be said to be everywhere. For young people, a little rebellious and personality-seeking hip-hop can just represent their views on society and reality, and thus extend to form a new youth cultural style. Such as hip-hop costumes, "hip-hop" sporting goods, Rap rap music, DJ and so on. Even the clothing styles are close to the same. For example, wear a nose ring, some earrings, a wide T-shirt, casual pants, sports shoes, baseball caps, or thick silver earrings, necklaces, bracelets, sunglasses, MD walkman, scooter, backpack, etc. Walking around, braiding hair, perming hair or tying hair ... is full of movement. In the eyes of most people, hip-hop is still an alternative group. In fact, the essence of hip-hop culture is to express and prove yourself more freely and confidently.

In our country with stable social environment and superior life, the hip-hop culture developed so far is no longer an exaggeration of pornography, violence, negative attitude towards life and hedonism, but the birthplace of street culture that integrates art, music and sports to cultivate and exercise young people's performance ability and show their individuality.

It should be said that the country with the most wonderful street culture in Asia is Japan. Especially in cities with high degree of internationalization and prosperous economy, such as Tokyo.

When it comes to street culture, it's easy to think of hip hop. To some extent, HIP-HOP has indeed become synonymous with street culture.

Hip-hop originated from the working class at the bottom of new york and is the spiritual embodiment of black cultural life. There are two styles of schools: new york and LA. Music, dance, graffiti, tattoos and costumes are the main components of hip-hop culture. Because of the humble origin of HIP-HOP, its initial activity place can only be the street, such as street dance, street basketball and skateboarding, which exists as a cultural form of pure self-entertainment, self-expression and self-venting. Hip-hop people are highly recognizable. They paraded in the city with tape recorders, played loud music, accompanied by exaggerated and dazzling dance moves and costumes that were always one size older, and brazenly declared to people that we were hip-hop.

Japanese teenagers are greatly influenced by American culture, so HIP-HOP is quickly accepted and popular by Japanese teenagers. However, they have also made some changes, such as adding graffiti to cultural elements and people in their own country. In terms of wearing, it is not only a typical costume of hip-hop, but also a lot of collocation. Japanese are introverted and quiet, so hip-hop people are not so ostentatious. I saw a group of hip-hop people dancing hip-hop outside Tokyo Palace. They are all 12-year-old boys, clean, wearing skateboarding shoes and loose clothes, wearing baseball caps backwards and twisting their limbs, trying some difficult moves like no one's watching. HIP-HOP was originally a very ostentatious culture, but when it came to Japan, it became very low-key, with no noisy music, exaggerated expressions and movements. Their conversation and laughter were quite restrained, for fear of disturbing the solemn and quiet palace.

The dazzling hip-hop culture, like all underground cultures, has been intervened by the mainstream entertainment circle and formed a new mainstream culture with the help of modern promotion means. As early as 1994, rap made great gains in pop music, and many hip-hop people made money and improved their lives. Street dance has also entered the gyms and clubs full of petty bourgeoisie from the street and become the daily life style of the middle class.

When a culture emerges from the ground, from the edge to the core, from the street to the stage, from the spiritual paradise to the commercial society, it begins to lose its vitality and decline.

Therefore, street culture is essentially the culture of teenagers, because they are not bound by precepts, do not need theoretical support, and despise commercial society. When adults are exhausted and overworked for their career success, they wander the streets all summer and do nothing.

Besides HIP-HOP, there are many unique street cultures in Japan, such as the famous mobs. Young people rode motorcycles and wore metal ornaments, and deafening music came from the car stereo. They marched through the city in full view. In recent years, off-road vehicles have become popular in the streets. On the congested streets of Tokyo, an off-road vehicle often appears, catches a glimpse and then disappears into the traffic.

If we want to talk about Japanese street culture, we can't help but say that it is the unique street culture in the world-Harajuku culture.

After World War II, Harajuku became a US military base. The young people in this area are naturally influenced by American culture, and a group of hippies, the earliest Harajuku people, have emerged. Today, Harajuku is famous for gathering fashionable and modern teenagers. Harajuku has also gone beyond simple place names and become a street culture. There is a bamboo road in Harajuku block, which is the territory of the so-called bamboo boy. They are the new owners of Harajuku. These young people under the age of 20 are bold, novel, full of personality and even a little weird. Every weekend, they gather from the suburbs of Tokyo to get off the road. They do nothing but stand in the street and show off their clothes. They don't have much money in their pockets and are not covered with famous brands, but they are well dressed, avant-garde and maverick, which has become a symbol of Harajuku culture.

Street culture is accompanied by the process of urbanization. Looking down from the Tokyo Tower, the rows of buildings and dense streets are unbearable, but these streets are a paradise for street culture in Tokyo, where generations of young people grow up. When a group of young people sell their youth, the new young people will be higher and higher. Their purity and non-commercial cultural characteristics are the source of vitality and beauty of street culture.

The street life in Japan is rich and colorful, and the street culture of young people is only a part of it. In public places in Japan, you can often see some street performers. The street culture of young people is purely a kind of self-expression and self-entertainment. They don't need other people's recognition and appreciation, but they just act according to their own wishes, but street performers are different. Some street performances are planned, organized and professional, and are often associated with local activities such as catering, entertainment and tourism. For example, a dynamic Hawaiian dance performance at the entrance of Fuji TV is to promote the tourist routes in Hawaii, and the live sculpture of Disneyland is to attract more tourists. There are also some street performers or street performances by street performers, which are more or less commercial.

Many cities in Japan, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, are the unity of contradictions in urban culture. In Tokyo, the elegant and beautiful palace gardens are in sharp contrast with modern architectural masterpieces, antique temple shrines and magnificent skyscrapers, dim lanterns in quiet alleys and dazzling neon lights in bustling cities. Tokyo is a modern metropolis, while retaining the oldest traditions. The unity of this contradiction is often reflected in Japanese street culture and street performances, such as boys dancing street dance in the palace and violinist performing in Asakusa Kannonji.

Asakusa, just hearing this quaint name is enough to arouse people's reverie. It is the most representative ancient traditional area in Tokyo. There are clean stone roads, faint street scenes and Kannonji, the oldest temple in Tokyo. Every day is as lively as a temple fair. On both sides of the 300-meter-long stone road from the main entrance of the temple to the main hall, there are dozens of shops selling various edo-style items. On summer nights, tourists are everywhere, and girls wearing kimonos and clogs can be seen walking on the stone road and praying in front of the temple.

At the front door of the temple, a street performer, a tall and handsome foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes, brought his own audio equipment and played the violin with the melody in the speaker. He plays familiar and unfamiliar western music, and his temperament is like holding a solo concert in a concert hall, which makes tourists wonder whether they should give money, even though there is a small bowl in front of him to put money in. It seems that he doesn't care about his income, but indulges in music, so he stands in the ancient building of Kannonji, singing one song after another, accompanied by tourists coming and going. On the night of Asakusa, the charm of the East and the amorous feelings of the West are so harmonious that they flow on the quaint stone roads and the strings of street performers.

Street culture is a brand-new cultural form of self-release. It makes teenagers happy in music and sports, learning art, and there are many street cultures, and almost any street art can become street culture. Modern street culture developed in 1970s, concentrated in Europe and America, especially in the popular time zone of street fashion in America. Street music includes rap music and rock music. There are also hip-hop, hip-hop, skateboarding and roller skating. With street clothes, graffiti and so on.

Nowadays, street culture breaks the tradition and dresses exaggeratedly. Outstanding image. These characteristics make young people love and spread quickly, and take root and sprout all over the world. In our Asia, rap groups first appeared in Japan and South Korea, then street dance groups appeared, and then some rap groups appeared on the basis, where they could dance together and perform simple and difficult movements.

In China, influenced by Korea and Japan, hip-hop storms and dance troupes also appeared in the late 1990s. Especially in 2000, street culture appeared in almost every province. In addition, many people like street clothes, especially in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong. It can be said that street dance has become the first sport and the first dance is the first choice for students. In Chinese mainland, street culture has just become popular and is loved by young people. It can be said that it developed late in Hainan. Although it has developed for two years. But it is still immature.

The composition of street culture:

Dress

Oversized clothing can be regarded as a classic style of hip-hop culture. It is said that the origin of this way of dressing is closely related to the origin of hip-hop culture. It turns out that hip-hop culture was developed by blacks, Jews, Mexicans and other colored people in the United States as early as the 1970s. At that time, the economic situation of colored people in the United States was not as good as that of whites, but more children were born than whites. In order to prevent these children from undressing too quickly, they often buy bigger T-shirts. Coupled with the strong flavor of hip-hop culture and sports, loose clothes are much more convenient.

Generosity is not the whole picture of Hip-Hop, but there are also some differences: skateboarders like to wear skateboard shoes, which are lighter and more wear-resistant when engaged in sports, and they are all well-known brands in skateboarding sporting goods, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, EXPEDITION, DC, etc. Stomp the yard likes to wear simple style sneakers of sports brands such as Nike and Adidas, showing a clean and neat style, among which Adidas shoes are loved by dancers who play floor movements; Among the street clothing brands, there are well-known ESDJ, Tribe, Joker and FUBU. Tommy hilfiger, POLO Sport, Nautica, OAKLEY and sports brands Nike and Adidas are also very popular among dancers.

Scribbled handwriting

Graffiti, or street graffiti, is common in alleys, underpasses and subway stations in some residential areas in the United States. Graffiti teenagers graffiti on the wall with spray paint to express their ideas, ideas or gangs to divide the territory; Originated in the late 1960s, it gradually became a street art.

Graffiti teenagers hold graffiti competitions with each other, and whoever has more works will be famous. They "paint" their names or pen names in conspicuous places in all possible public places to show their contempt for adult authority. They play hide-and-seek with the police with spray guns full of paint. These spray guns are often stolen.

They daubed mysterious sentences, rude skulls, faces with original mask colors, and obscene gestures in children's games on the city walls. Graffiti works are visual rap and jazz, and they are original contributions to visual arts. As an extension of popular concepts, graffiti artists have created a large number of sketches, prints, oil paintings, sculptures, murals, T-shirts, buttons and flags.

200 1, fashion designers invariably draw lessons from hip-hop pop culture, and black-and-white or colorful graffiti works can be found on clothes, skirts, high heels and handbags.

street dance

Street dance, including mechanical dance and break dance, originated from the improvisation of American street dance. These street dancers are mainly black or Mexican. Most popular street dances originated in Brooklyn, new york, USA. Some black or Mexican children like to dance in the street all day, forming various factions, and naturally developing different characteristics in their dances.

Hip-hop dance is a kind of energetic dance, full of movement and large range of movements, which requires dancers to have good physique. One-handed handstand, forward roll, windmill turn, back spin and other actions. They are all performances with high difficulty coefficient. Stamping the yard must maintain sufficient physical support and have strong will and courage.

Some smart businessmen in Shenzhen made a fortune by "street dance", which brought the prosperity of street dance in a sense. Some dance schools and fitness centers have set up street dance classes, and the business is very hot. When shopping malls promote goods or hold celebrations, they often invite street dance performances to add fun and atmosphere.

hip hop

1967, a Jamaican immigrant put two discs and a mixer together for the first time in new york, USA, and created a unique "scraping" action, which attracted many people to enjoy in the street. DJ, as the operator of the record player, has since become the spokesman of popular culture. Of course, it is not enough to play only CDs. Only with a good sense of pitch and rhythm can two different songs be mixed beautifully. A higher skill is scraping, called scraping records. Create sharp sound effects. DJ has been popular abroad for more than 20 years and has become a special culture. Moreover, some international competitions, large and small, have been held, among which the most credible competition is called DMC.

rapist

Raper(MC) refers to the person in charge at the party. A good M C should be able to arouse people's emotions, talk to people, create rhythms with human voices, and imitate the sounds made by machines such as drums or s cratch, so it has evolved into R ap skills such as R AP. M C is not only a performer, but also has the function of cultural messenger of H ip-H op A M C with distinctive personal color can promote the popularity of catchwords, music and clothes, which can also be seen from the endorsement of clothing brands by so many black singers.

Trick riding

Nowadays, many young people not only use bicycles as a means of transportation for school or work. For some people, the word b or B M is not strange at all.

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The correct name of boy b is B MX, and the full name is cross-country cycling. It is a cross-country cycling sport that rose in the United States in the middle and late 1970s. In the mid-1980 s, B MX was taken to play on the flat ground, playing more gaudy, jumping higher and more exciting than skateboarding. There are hundreds of movements, the most basic of which is the static balance of the car, such as rear wheel jumping, front wheel jumping, wheel wiping, car fixing, floating and crossing the bridge. B MX's body is generally made of alloy, which can withstand the impact of falling from a few meters high. There are also many special features in the design. For example, the handlebar can rotate 360 degrees without being limited by the brake line. The appearance of B MX in the movie "E T" makes it a representative of popular culture.

In Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, acrobatic cycling races are divided into three types: U-tube race, flat race and park race. These competitions have brought acrobatic cycling to the public, but the core of this sport is still in the street.

Skateboard; skateboard; skateboarding

In the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, American surfing music and movies led the trend, and people sought the pleasure of surfing on land with the design similar to surfboards. The first skateboard was launched on 1959. In the late 1980s, the appearance of sandwich wooden obstacles and street venues revived skateboarding in a self-help way, and this new generation of skateboarders began to train their own star athletes.

Skateboarding has a far-reaching influence on the world trend culture. P unk music, which athletes like to listen to, once became a world trend by taking off a coat with a strong earthy feeling and putting on nostalgic tennis shoes.

roller skating

The idea of roller skating lasted for about 300 years. At first, a Dutch man in the17th century tried to nail wooden rollers under his shoes and enjoy skating. 1979, an American ice hockey player found a pair of old inline skates and bought this design. Since then, inline skating has become popular all over the world.

From 65438 to 0984, the United States began to develop roller skates for different purposes, and Rolerblade has always been the leading brand in the international flywheel industry.

motor scooter

Biman is another new sports product after skateboarding, and its speed can reach 20 kilometers per hour. This new product comes from Japan.

Although we can see some old people and women riding scooters in the streets of Shenzhen, this is not the representative of street culture, because street culture is the plaything of the young "cool" generation. A scooter is like a small bike. The front of the scooter adopts the structure of bicycle, and the lower part adopts the structure of skateboard, but only has two wheels. If you can do the following tricks, you can prove that you have reached a "perfect" situation: hold the rear wheel with both feet, hold the front of the car with both hands, lift the front of the car hard, turn the rear wheel twice in mid-air, and then turn three times if it is strong; Or clamp the front wheel and tilt the rear wheel to rotate with the front wheel as the center of gravity.

[Edit this paragraph] Street wandering-street music, street musicians and others.

"Do we often equate street performers with ragged, dirty and blind beggars?" In the face of such heckling, how should you answer? I believe that most people will give a positive answer. There is a simple reason. In our country with a history of 5,000 years of civilization, street art and its followers have won people's heartfelt appreciation-Han E, a singer in the pre-Qin period, can "linger for three days", but he can't win the respect of the people of Yong Men because of begging along the street; The singers of Goulan Washe in the capital of song dynasty and the "wild" artists of Qilu are important inheritors of China traditional music, and some objective descriptions can only be found in unofficial history and anecdotes. Before liberation, Hua's famous songs such as "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Listening to Song" had been with him for many years, and it was not until after liberation that they were recorded and arranged by "Bole" who knew music, so as not to be peerless ... All these show that although there were a large number of "street artists" in Chinese history, only a few lucky people were able to make a name for themselves in history.

There have also been a large number of street musicians in the history of western culture. From the data, we can see that the nature and musical activities of wandering artists in medieval Europe are similar to those of street musicians. No one knows where they came from or where they wandered. They roamed France, Britain, Germany and Italy, playing their music in folk and court, sowing the seeds for the development of European art music. However, these vagrant artists, who were born in poverty and had no fixed place, were not recognized by the "official" church at that time. So there are few records about them in history.

In the late Middle Ages and modern times, these vagrants were often called bard or Jongler. With the expansion of their scale and the intensification of their influence, as well as the progress and development of the social and historical environment, vagrants gradually entered the works of writers and historians, which made us understand them. Paul long, a music historian, has some detailed discussions in his book Music in Western Civilization. He described that the origin of vagrants can be traced back to ancient Rome, and their literary knowledge and music enabled people to peek at the remnants of ancient public drama performances and other festivals. Bards were almost indispensable throughout medieval Europe.

Even in the course of the development of western art music that people are familiar with today, there are many shadows attached to street music. For example, Haydn's creation of classical music directly benefited from his peasant experience. He got a lot of music nourishment from the countryside and the people, even from the streets. Haydn often uses popular folk tunes as his creative materials, including German, Bohemian, Croatian, Hungarian and Gypsy tunes. These music materials are the accumulation of his early life experiences. At that time, Haydn often roamed the countryside and the people alone. Sometimes, in order to gain the experience of folk music materials and improvisation, he often participates in the performances of street and square artists. This way not only makes Haydn closer to his life and personality, but also gives him a rich source of music.

From this point of view, street music, as a way of music activity, is not unique to a certain country or society, nor is it a cultural phenomenon that only appears in modern society. It is actually a continuation of a widespread cultural tradition.

Modern people just ignore this cultural phenomenon, so that when studying in the United States, Dr. Qin Luo, a music scholar, is faced with a bleak situation-not only can't find reference materials in China, but there is not even an introductory text in the United States, which is also pitiful.

Relatively speaking, readers are lucky. Today, we have seen the latest achievements in this field: the achievements of Dr. Qin Luo's overseas travel for nearly eight years-his first monograph on street music research, Street Music: the epitome of American social culture (People's Music Publishing House, 200 1 year,1month), has been published, which is also the first one at home and abroad to pay attention to street art. In this book, dozens of representative singing scenes of American street music are selected to describe and see through contemporary American civilization with narrative techniques of musical anthropology, and more than 20 street music pictures taken by the author on the spot are used to describe and discuss the boring academic language. Considering the music knowledge level of ordinary readers, whenever professional terms and nouns appear in the narrative of the article, the author also deliberately inserts many "narrative" short articles to explain them in simple terms, so as to increase the accumulation of readers' music knowledge and help to understand the original intention of the article. In order to enhance the reader's sense of presence and understanding, the author also selected 15 songs from the collected music sounds of street musicians, pressed them into CDs and stuck them on the back of the book for readers to listen to at the same time, achieving an intellectual, academic and interesting publishing effect of integrating text, pictures and sounds.

[Edit this paragraph] Street basketball

Hot sauce (street ball) originated in America. This sport doesn't need to be played on an ordinary basketball court. You can play ball on a flat hard ground half the size of a basketball court in a city square or street, and set up a basketball stand. In recent years, three-player basketball has been introduced to China and played many times in some large and medium-sized cities, which is very popular.

When it comes to street basketball culture, we can't help mentioning West 4th Street in Manhattan and Rucker Park in Harlem, new york, which have created many heroes and myths of street basketball. Earl manigault is one of the legends. He can easily take a section from the top of the backboard, and his quick dribbling and cutting make his opponent hard to defend. He is only 6' 2 "(188), and can easily beat NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who is 7' 2" (2 18). Since then, goat (. However, due to the influence of street hooligans and drugs in the United States, many street players can't join the NBA even with the best strength, so they can only finish their basketball career on the street.

Because of this, street basketball has been handed down from generation to generation, and every street player has his own unique style and skills to win the recognition and respect of the audience. Hot sauce may be the most popular street player in 2 1 century, because he created many new tricks to make street basketball more ornamental and entertaining. If you can watch him play with your own eyes, you will really understand that street basketball is not just a sport, but an art, which will make you feel the shock brought by street basketball.

Street Basketball is based on HipHop's street basketball. Throw away all kinds of complicated rules and everyone comes to the streets. On the street, follow the rhythm of HIPHOP, let's enjoy the fun of free basketball together.