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| x Anarcho-punk |
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Anarcho-punk is a faction of the punk subculture that consists of bands, groups and individuals promoting anarchist politics.
Although not all punks support anarchism, the ideology has played a significant role in the punk subculture, and punk has...
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| x Beat generation |
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Literary School Or Movement |
The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"): a rejection of...
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| x Beatnik |
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The media stereotype of beatniks borrowed the most superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s to present a distorted (and sometimes violent) cartoon-like misrepresentation of the real-life people and the spirituality...
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| x Bills |
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Quotation Subject |
The Bills were a youth subculture that thrived in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the late 1950s, basing much of their image and outlook on the cowboys of American Western movies.
From 1957 to...
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| x Casuals |
Casuals are a subculture of football support that developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom, and is typified by football hooliganism and the wearing of expensive European designer clothing . The subculture originated when...
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| x Cosplay |
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Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure), short for "costume play", is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves, with often-elaborate costumes and accessories, as a specific character. Characters are usually sourced in various Japanese and...
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| x Cyber |
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Cyber, is the name given to a contemporary subculture having roots in multiple music and fashion scenes including the European and American rave/clubbing scenes and dark culture scenes. Someone who identifies with the cyber subculture can be...
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| x Schwarze Szene |
The term dark culture (German Schwarze Szene, Portuguese cultura dark, Spanish cultura oscura), also called "dark alternative scene", is an umbrella term, used to describe a summary of parts of several subcultures. In this context the "culture" is...
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| x Demoscene |
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Computer Game Genre |
The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer. The main goal of a demo is to show off programming, artistic, and musical...
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| x Fandom |
Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, freedom, etc.) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest. A fandom can grow up...
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| x Fetish subculture | Sexual subculture |
Fetish culture is a term used to describe the lifestyle and arts relating to and influenced by the interest in sexual fetishism and paraphilias. This includes Fetish magazines, and a particular style of fashion, photography, art and modelling. Also...
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| x Omorashi |
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Sexual fetish |
Omorashi (オモラシ / おもらし / お漏らし, Omorashi) is a fetish subculture recognized predominantly in Japan, in which participants experience arousal from having a full bladder or a sexual attraction to someone else experiencing the feeling of a full bladder....
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| x Freak scene |
The freak scene was a term used by a slightly post-hippie and pre-punk style of bohemian subculture. It referred to overlaps between politicised pacifist post-hippies, generally non-political progressive rock fans, and non-political Psychedelic...
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| x Furry fandom |
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Sexual subculture |
Furry fandom is a fandom devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters. Since the 1980s, the term furries has come to refer to such characters.
Fictional work celebrated by furry fandom typically attributes high-level intelligence, human facial...
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| x Goth subculture |
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The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of...
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| x Greaser |
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Greasers are a working class youth subculture that originated in the 1950s among young eastern and Southern United States street gangs, and then became popular among other types of people. In the 1950s and early 1960s, these youths were known as...
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| x Grebo | Musical genre |
Grebo was a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely based in the English Midlands.
Influential bands in the scene were Pop Will Eat Itself (who had songs titled, "Oh Grebo I Think I Love You" and "Grebo Guru"), The...
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| x Gangster |
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Media genre |
A gangster is a criminal who is, or at some point almost invariably becomes, a member of a persistent violent crime organization, such as a gang. As an adjective it can be used as an unflattering depiction of the violent and devious methods commonly...
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| x Hacker culture |
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Book Subject |
In one of several meanings of the word in computing, a hacker is a member of the programmer subculture originated in the 1960s in the United States academia, in particular around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad...
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| x Hardline |
Hardline is a radical deep ecology movement that had its roots in the straight edge hardcore scene. From an initial founding statement (see Hardline manifesto) the movement attempted a break with the straight edge and hardcore scenes. The founding...
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| x Hip hop culture |
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Hip hop is a subculture, which is said to have begun with the work of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaattaa. The four main aspects, or "elements", of hip hop culture are MCing (rapping), DJing, urban inspired art...
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| x B-boy |
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A B-boy or B-girl is a person devoted to hip hop culture. The term originates with the first hip hop DJ, DJ Kool Herc, who, noticing the reaction of some dancers to his playing the part of the record with a drum break, named them break-boys or B...
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| x Hippie |
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Clothing style |
The Hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San...
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| x Hipster |
Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early '40s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang...
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| x Indie | Musical genre |
Indie, an abbreviation of independent, is a term related to subcultural aspects such as music, film, fashion, behavior and beliefs.
Indie rock established itself as a music genre in the 1980s when bands such as Pixies and Sonic Youth, who didn't...
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| x Juggalo |
A Juggalo (male or female) or Juggalette (more commonly used for a female) is a member of the fanbase of the Michigan hip hop group Insane Clown Posse and related recording artists at Psychopathic Records, much like the Deadheads are for Grateful...
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| x Junglist |
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Junglist is a slang term referring to a dedicated listener of jungle and/or drum and bass. Tracks from this genre often contain calls and references to the "original junglists," "jungle soldiers". Junglists usually tend to gravitate towards...
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| x Leather subculture |
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Sexual subculture |
The leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities and hedonistic eroticism ("kink"). Wearing leather garments is one way that participants in this culture self-consciously distinguish themselves from...
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| x LGBT culture |
LGBT culture, or queer culture, is the common culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. It is sometimes referred to as "gay culture", but that term can also be specific to gay men's culture.
LGBT culture varies widely...
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| x Bear community |
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Bear is LGBT slang for those in the bear communities, a subculture in the gay/bisexual male communities and an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes and culture-specific identity. It also describes a physical type.
Bears tend to...
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| x Mod |
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Musical genre |
Mod (originally modernist, sometimes capitalised) is a subculture that originated in London in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s.
Significant elements of the mod lifestyle included pop music, such as African American soul, Jamaican...
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| x Mod Revival | Musical genre |
The mod revival was a music genre and subculture that started in the United Kingdom in 1978 and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree). The Mod revival's mainstream popularity was relatively short, although its influence has lasted for...
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| x National Socialist black metal | Musical genre |
National Socialist black metal (also known as NSBM or Nazi black metal) is a term used for black metal artists who promote National Socialist beliefs through their music and imagery. It is not viewed as a distinct subgenre, as there is no method to...
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| x Nazi punk |
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A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term can also describe the kind of music they play.
Nazi punk music is similar to most other forms of punk rock, although it usually differs by having lyrics that express hatred for...
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| x New Age |
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Religion |
New Age (New Age Movement and New Age Spirituality) is a decentralized western social and spiritual movement that seeks universal truth and the attainment of the highest individual human potential. It combines aspects of spirituality, cosmology,...
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| x Naturism |
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Naturism or nudism is a cultural and political movement advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also be a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism.
The naturist philosophy has several sources, many of...
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| x Otaku |
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Otaku (おたく or オタク, Otaku) is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games.
Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family (お宅, otaku) that is also used as an...
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| x Otherkin |
Otherkin are a subculture of people, primarily Internet-based, who identify in some way as other than human. Otherkin often believe themselves to be mythological or legendary creatures, explaining their beliefs through reincarnation, having a...
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| x Vampire lifestyle |
The vampire lifestyle (or vampyre subculture) is an alternative lifestyle, based on the modern perception of vampires in popular fiction. It has been noted that the Vampire subculture has stemmed largely from the Goth subculture, but also...
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| x Pachuco |
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Pachucos are Mexican American youths who developed their own subculture during the 1930s and 1940s in the Southwestern United States. They wore distinctive clothes (such as zoot suits) and spoke their own dialect (Caló). Due to their double...
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| x Punk subculture |
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The punk subculture is based around punk rock. It emerged from the larger rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan. The punk movement has spread around the globe and developed...
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| x Raggare |
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Raggare (a Swedish word roughly corresponding to the English term "pick-up artist", i.e., a person seeking sexual contact with someone) is a subculture found mostly in Sweden and parts of Norway and Finland, Denmark, Germany and Austria.
Raggare...
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| x Rave |
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A rave (or rave party), is a term, in use since the 1980s, to describe dance parties (often all-night events). At these parties DJs and other performers play electronic dance music (sometimes referred to as "rave music"), with the accompaniment of...
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| x Riot Grrrl |
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Musical genre |
Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990s, and is often associated with third-wave feminism (it is sometimes seen as its starting point). However, riot grrrl's emphasis on universal female identity and...
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| x Rockabilly |
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Musical genre |
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.
The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock (from rock 'n' roll) and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music (often called hillbilly...
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| x Rockers |
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Rockers are members of a subculture that started in the United Kingdom in the 1960s among motorcycle riding youths. Before that time, young motorcyclists had not been grouped together and labelled as such. Rockers are different from greasers,...
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| x Rude boy |
Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi or rudy were common terms for juvenile delinquents and criminals in 1960s Jamaica, and have since been used in other contexts. During the late-1970s 2 Tone ska revival in England, the terms rude boy, rude girl and...
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| x Scooterboy |
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A scooterboy is a member of a specific subculture based around riding motor scooters.
The subculture originated in the United Kingdom in the 1980s among Vespa and Lambretta riders. It developed out of the mod, northern soul, punk, psychobilly, goth...
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| x Skinhead |
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A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly...
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| x Gay skinhead |
A gay skinhead, also known as a gayskin or queerskin, is a gay person who identifies with the skinhead subculture, often (though not necessarily) out of sexual interest. Some gay skinheads have a sexual fetish for skinhead clothing styles, and some...
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| x Red-Skinheads |
In the context of the skinhead subculture, a redskin is a left wing (communist or socialist) skinhead.
The term combines the word red, (a slang term for socialist or communist) with the word skin, which is short for skinhead. Redskins take an anti...
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| x Trojan skinhead |
Trojan skinheads (also known as traditional skinheads or trads) are individuals who identify with the original British skinhead subculture of the late 1960s, when ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul music were popular, and there was a heavy emphasis on...
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