Who are the representatives of street culture?

Street culture is also called HipHop culture, which is translated as hip hop in Chinese. The culture originated from a street rap culture of African-Americans in the 197s. In English, hip means hip, hop means hop, and hip-hop means gently twisting hip. In the 199s, Hip－Hop culture landed in Asia, and exploded 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. In a few decades, with the help of increasingly developed mass media, it spread rapidly around the world. Hip-hop culture has also developed from the four basic elements of disc playing, rap, street dance and graffiti to performance sports such as skateboarding and street basketball. Nowadays, in large and medium-sized cities, hip-hop culture can be said to be everywhere. For young people, hip-hop with a little rebellion and pursuit of individuality can just represent their views on society and reality, and thus extend to form a new style of youth culture. Such as hip-hop costumes, "hip-hop" sporting goods, Rap rap music, DJ, etc. Even the dress styles are close to the same. For example, wearing a nose ring, several earrings, a wide T-shirt, slacks, sports boots, baseball caps, or thick silver earrings, necklaces, bracelets, sunglasses, MD walkman, scooter, backpack, etc., walking up and down, braiding hair, burning your head or tying your 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, hip-hop culture has developed to the present, instead of exaggerating pornography, violence, negative attitude towards life and hedonism, it has become the origin of street culture that integrates art, music and sports to cultivate and exercise teenagers' expressive ability and show their individuality.

It should be said that Japan is the country with the most wonderful street culture in Asia. 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 it is a spiritual embodiment of black cultural life. There are two schools in style: new york and Los Angeles. Music, dance, graffiti, tattoos and clothes are the main components of HIP－HOP culture. Since HIP－HOP was born in a humble background, 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 have a strong identifiability. They parade through the city with tape recorders, play loud music, cooperate with exaggerated and dazzling dance movements and costumes that are always one size bigger, and unscrupulously declare to people that we are the Hip-hop people.

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

Like all underground cultures, the dazzling HIP－HOP culture has been intervened by the mainstream entertainment circle, and a new mainstream culture has been formed by 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 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, moves from the periphery 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, in essence, street culture is 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 skate around the street all summer with nothing to do.

in addition to HIP－HOP, there are many unique street cultures in Japan, such as the famous mobs. Young people rode motorcycles, dressed in metal ornaments, and there was deafening music in the car stereo, and they paraded through the city in full view. In recent years, off-road vehicles have become popular in the streets. In 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 a unique street culture in the world-Harajuku culture.

Harajuku became a US military base after World War II. Naturally, young people in this area were influenced by American culture, and a group of hippies emerged, that is, the earliest Harajuku people. Today Harajuku is famous for gathering fashionable and modern teenagers. Harajuku has also surpassed the simple place name and become a street culture. There is a bamboo road in Harajuku block, which is the territory of the so-called bamboo children. They are the new owners of Harajuku. These young people under the age of 2 are bold, novel, full of personality and even weird. Every weekend, they gather from the suburbs of Tokyo to get off the road. They do nothing but stand on the street and show off their costumes. They don't have much money in their pockets, and they don't have famous brands all over their bodies, but they are carefully dressed, avant-garde and maverick, which has become a symbol of Harajuku culture.

Street culture goes hand in hand with the process of urbanization. Looking down from the Tokyo Tower, the rows of buildings and dense streets make people unbearable, but these streets are the paradise of street culture in Tokyo, where generations of young people grow up. When a group of young people betray their youth, new young people will wave upon wave. Their pure and non-commercial cultural characteristics are the source of vitality and beauty of street culture.

Japanese street life is rich and colorful, and the street culture of young people is only one part of it. In Japanese public places, 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 living sculpture at Disneyland is to attract more tourists. There are also some street performances by street performers or street performers, which are more or less commercial.

Many cities in Japan, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, are all contradictory unity in terms of urban culture. In Tokyo, elegant and beautiful palace gardens are in sharp contrast with modern architectural masterpieces, antique temple shrines and magnificent skyscrapers, dim lanterns in secluded alleys and dazzling neon lights in bustling cities. Tokyo is a modern metropolis, while preserving 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 Imperial Palace and violinists performing in the Guanyin Temple in Asakusa.

Asakusa, just hearing this quaint name is enough to arouse people's reverie. It is the most representative area of ancient tradition in Tokyo. There are clean stone roads, faint street scenes, and Kannonji, the oldest temple in Tokyo. It is as lively as a temple fair every day. There are dozens of shops selling various Edo-style items on both sides of the 3-meter-long stone road from the front door of the temple to the main hall. 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 in tune with the melody in the speaker. He plays familiar and unknown western music, and his temperament is like giving a solo concert in the 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. He doesn't seem to care about the income, but he just indulges in music, so he stands under the ancient building of Guanyin Temple, singing one song after another, accompanied by tourists coming and going. On the night of shallow grass, 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 to release oneself. It makes teenagers happy in music and sports and learn art. There are many street cultures, and almost any art on the street can become street culture. Modern street culture developed in the 197s, concentrated in Europe and America, especially in the hot time zone of street fashion in the United States, with street music RAB RAP (rap music) and rock sounds. There are also street dances, street dances, skateboarders and roller skating. Accompanied by street clothes, graffiti and so on.

Today's street culture breaks the tradition and dresses exaggeratedly. The image is outstanding. These characteristics make young people love and spread quickly and take root all over the world. In our Asia, rap groups first appeared in Japan and South Korea, then hip-hop dance groups appeared, and then some rap groups appeared on the basis, which could dance together and perform simple and difficult movements.

under the influence of Korean and Japanese, hip-hop storm and dance troupe appeared in China in the late 199s, and street culture appeared in almost every province, especially in 2. Moreover, many people like street clothes, especially in Taiwan 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 mainland China, 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 been developed for two years. But it is still immature.

composition of street culture:

clothing

oversized clothing can be regarded as a classic style of Hip－hop culture. It is said that the origin of this way of wearing is closely related to the origin of Hip－Hop culture. It turns out that the Hip－hop culture was developed by blacks, Jews, Mexicans and other colored people in the United States as early as the 197s. At that time, the economic situation of colored people in the United States was not as superior as that of whites, but children were born more than whites. In order to prevent these children from getting rid of clothes too quickly, they often bought larger T-shirts. Coupled with the heavy flavor of Hip－Hop culture and sports, loose clothes are much more convenient.

Generosity is not the whole picture of Hip－Hop, and there are differences in the subdivision: skateboarders like to wear skateboard shoes, which are more handy and wear-resistant when they are engaged in sports, and the clothes with skateboard brands, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, EXPEDITION, DC, are all famous brands in skateboarding sporting goods; Stomp the yard likes to wear simple style sneakers of Nike, Adidas and other sports brands, showing a clean and neat style, among which Adidas shoes are loved by dancers who play floor movements; In street clothing brands, there are well-known ESDJ, TRIBAL, JOKER, FUBU, etc., brand-name clothing Tommy Hilfiger, POLO Sport, Nautica, OAKLEY and sports brands Nike and Adidas are also popular among dancers.

graffiti

Graffiti is street graffiti, which is common in alleys, underpasses and subway stations in some residential areas in the United States. Graffiti teenagers paint on the wall with spray paint to express their ideas, ideas or gangs to divide the territory; Originated in the late 196s, it has gradually become a street art.

Graffiti teenagers hold graffiti competitions with each other, and whoever has more works is famous. They "painted" 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 filled with paints, which are often stolen.

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

in 21, fashion designers invariably learned from Hip－Hop pop culture, and they could find black-and-white or colorful graffiti works from clothes, skirts, high heels and handbags.

street dance

street dance includes mechanical dance, break dance and so on, which originated from the improvisation of American street dance. These street dancers are mainly blacks or Mexicans. Most of the popular street dances originated in Brooklyn, new york, USA. Some black or Mexican children enjoy dancing in the street all day, forming various factions, and naturally developing different characteristics in their dances.

Hip-hop dance is a vigorous dance, full of movement and large range of movements, which requires dancers to be in good health. Actions such as one-handed handstand, forward roll, windmill turn, back spin, etc. are performances with high difficulty coefficient. stomp the yard must maintain sufficient physical support and have strong will and courage.

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

hip-hopdj

In 1967, a Jamaican immigrant first put two turntables and a mixer together in new york, USA, and created a unique "scratch" 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 CD, but to have a good sense of pitch and rhythm, in order to mix two different songs beautifully; A higher skill is scratch, which is called scraping records. Create sharp sound effects. DJ has been popular abroad for more than 2 years, and has become a special culture, and