Transcript YOUTH SUBCULTURE DIVERSITY by the students of 9A, 9B, 9C Slonim gymnasia № 1 SLONIM BELARUS.

YOUTH SUBCULTURE
DIVERSITY
by the students of 9A, 9B,
9C
Slonim gymnasia № 1
SLONIM
BELARUS
What is youth culture?
Youth culture is the ideas and opinions and
styles of young people. It’s a particular
relationship on the part of young people
with the whole world of music, fashion
style, image, dancing.
What is youth subculture?
A subculture is a group of people whose cultural trades set them apart
within a culture or society. In many societies teenagers turned to form
subcultures. Youth subculture is a group of people whose customs and
values differ from those of society as a whole. However, teenage
subcultures often help shape the customs and values of the parent
society. Teenagers’ preferences in such matters as music and clothing
styles often affect the tastes of society as a whole. The youth
countercultures consisted mainly of older adolescents, some of whom
wanted to set up a completely free and society based on their ideals.
What is youth subculture?
Nowadays young people follow a particular
youth culture to rebel against society, to
have something in common in order to try
new options, to know who they are, where
they stand and where they are going.
Types of Youth Subcultures
 punks
 hippies
 bikers
 goths
 mods
 emo
 soul
boys
 skinheads
 ravers
 tecktonik
 parkour
 glamour, etc.
Goths
When the Goths appeared in the early 80s nobody thought that they would
last, but they are still rather popular. A Goth is somebody who listens to Goth’s
music and looks Gothic. One can tell Goths from the costume and make up. They are
really interesting and can look really striking with their white skin and swept back
hair. They are a mixture of quite a lot of fashions. The emphasis on black is
something that is very much punk. But what makes them really different is their
philosophy. They are into mystical things and wear silver decorations often with
religious significance. Another thing is that they have a rather negative view of life.
Everyone expects young people to be optimistic and full of life and enthusiasm, but
Goths aren’t like that. They are quite pessimistic and interested in death; they have
this attitude that everything is tragic. It seems to appeal to kids, and there are
always lots in every generation, who like to look on the dark rather than on the
bright side of life.
The punk subculture is a subculture that is based around
punk rock. It appeared in the mid-to-late 1970s in the UK,
the USA and Australia. Punk culture includes distinct styles of
music, ideologies, fashion, visual art ,dance, literature, and films.
Music is the most important aspect of the punk subculture. Punk
music is called punk rock. Most punk rock songs are short, lyric.
They express punk values. Some common trends in recent punk
politics include anti-militarism, anti-racism, anti-capitalism, antinationalism and animal rights.
The hippie subculture was a young movement
that began in the United States during the
early 1960s and spread around the world.
They dress in a shocking way to express his
or her identity. They have brightly colored
hair and wears metal chains.
Their music is aggressive. They say NO
to everything.
Rockers are members of a subculture that started in the United
Kingdom in the 1960s among motorcycle riding youth.
The first rockers were known for their motorcycles ,but by the 1960s ,
their subculture became associated with a specific music (rock-androll).
Rockers wore heavily-decorated leather motorcycle jackets with metal
studs, pin badges, patches and so on.
When they rode their motorcycles ,they usually wore an open –face
helmet and a white silk scarf ,leather caps, Levi’s jeans or leather
trousers and
tall motorcycle boots. In summer they wore T-shorts.
The mod subculture originated in London in the late 1950s, and peaked in the
early to mid 1960s. Elements of the mod lifestyle included music, clothes (often
tailor-made), dancing and motorscooters. They wore modern Italian suits, liked
jazz and blues. They spent more free time in nightclubs and coffee bars.
Then hard mods appeared. They were rougher, and got their hair
cropped short .The hard mods soon transformed into the first skinheads. They wore
three-button suits, shirts, Levi’s jeans and Dr. Marten’s boots. These first
skinheads had no association with any political movements.