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| x Anarcho-punk |
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Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Some use the term more...
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| x Beat generation |
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The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"). Central elements of "Beat" culture...
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| x Beatnik |
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Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into violent film images and a cartoonish misrepresentation of the real-life people and...
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| x Bills |
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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.
Bills were...
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| x Casuals |
The casual subculture is a subsection of association football culture that is typified by football hooliganism and the wearing of expensive European designer clothing. The subculture originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s when many...
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| x Cosplay |
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Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure), short for "costume play", is type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan. Favorite sources...
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| x Cyber |
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Cybergoth is a subculture that derives from elements of cyberpunk, goth, raver, and rivethead fashion. Unlike traditional goths, Cybergoths follow electronic dance music more often than rock.
While the term 'Cybergoth' was coined in 1988 in the...
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| x Schwarze Szene |
The term dark culture (German Schwarze Szene, Portuguese cultura dark, Spanish escena 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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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. Fans typically are...
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| x Fetish 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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Omorashi (オモラシ / おもらし / お漏らし) 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. Outside of...
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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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Furry fandom (also known as furrydom, fur fandom or furdom) refers to the fandom for fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human...
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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 |
Grebo is a made up 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"),...
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| x Gangster |
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"Mobster" is a slang term for a person who participates in organized crime, which is known as belonging to "the Mob". In western stories and movies, cowboys as mobsters are known as outlaws. Terrorists at times can also be called mobsters as well,...
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| x Hacker culture |
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In one of several meanings of the word in computing, a hacker is a member of the computer programmer subculture originated in the 1960s in the United States academia, in particular around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model...
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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 the movement attempted a break with the straight edge and hardcore scenes. The founding statement and subsequent...
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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 break-boy) is a male dancer who practices breaking or b-boying, an original hip-hop dance style, commonly known as "breakdancing." Equal terms for this are b-girl, to refer to a female who practices breaking, and breaker which is gender...
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| x Hippie |
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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 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress,...
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| x Indie |
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 |
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Juggalo or Juggalette (the latter being feminine) is a name given to fans of Insane Clown Posse or any other Psychopathic Records hip hop group. Juggalos have developed their own idioms, slang and characteristics.
The term originated during a live...
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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" and "jungle soldiers". Junglists usually tend to gravitate towards...
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| x Leather subculture |
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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 (LGBTQ) people. It is sometimes referred to as gay culture; that term can also be specific to just gay men's cultures.
LGBT culture varies...
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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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Mod (originally modernist, sometimes capitalised) is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s.
Significant elements of the mod subculture include: fashion (often tailor-made suits); pop...
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| x Mod Revival |
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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 |
National Socialist black metal (also known as NSBM) is black metal that promotes National Socialist (Nazi) beliefs through their lyrics and imagery. These beliefs often include: white supremacy, racial separatism, antisemitism, heterosexism, and...
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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 also describes a type of music associated with them.
Nazi punk music is similar to most other forms of punk rock, although it usually differs by having lyrics that express hatred...
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| x New Age |
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The New Age (also known as the New Age Movement, New Age spirituality, and Cosmic Humanism,) is a decentralized Western social and spiritual movement that seeks "Universal Truth" and the attainment of the highest individual human potential. It...
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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 refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism. The naturist philosophy has several sources,...
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| x Otaku |
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Otaku (おたく/オタク) 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 honorific second...
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| x Otherkin |
Otherkin are a primarily Internet-based subculture of people who identify in some way as non-human. Otherkin often believe themselves to be mythological or legendary creatures, explaining their beliefs through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul,...
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| x Vampire lifestyle |
The vampire lifestyle is an alternative lifestyle, based on the modern perception of vampires in popular fiction. The vampire subculture has stemmed largely from the goth subculture, but also incorporates some elements of the sadomasochism...
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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 clothing (such as zoot suits) and spoke their own dialect of Mexican Spanish, called Caló or...
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| x Punk subculture |
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The punk subculture is a subculture based around punk rock. It includes music, ideologies, fashion, visual art, dance, literature and film. The punk scene is composed of an assortment of smaller factions that distinguish themselves from one another...
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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, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Austria.
Raggare have...
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| x Rave |
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Rave or rave party is a term first used in the 1980s and 90s to describe dance parties (often all-night events) with fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties DJs and other performers play Electronic Dance Music. Some examples...
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| x Riot Grrrl |
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Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990s, and it 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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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 labeled 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 started in the late 1960s in the industrial north of England. The subculture resurfaced nationally in the United Kingdom around 1979 or 1980 at the...
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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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| x Nazi-Skinheads |
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White power skinheads are a white supremacist and anti-semitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture. Many of them are affiliated with white nationalist organizations.
The original skinhead subculture started in the late 1960s, and had heavy British...
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| x Suedeheads |
The Suedehead subculture was an early-1970s offshoot of the skinhead subculture in the United Kingdom. Although sharing many similarities to 1960s skinheads, suedeheads grew their hair longer and dressed in a more formal manner. Although working...
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| x Straight edge |
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Straight Edge refers to a lifestyle and youth movement that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose adherents make a lifetime commitment to refrain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco products, and taking any recreational drugs. The term...
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| x Swing Kids |
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The Swing Kids (German: Swingjugend) were a group of jazz and Swing lovers in Germany of the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg (St. Pauli) and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class...
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The British Teddy Boy subculture is typified by young men wearing clothes inspired by the styles of the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had tried to re-introduce after World War II. The group got its name after a 1953 newspaper headline...
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| x Trekkie |
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A Trekkie (or Trekker) is a fan of all or part of the Star Trek fictional universe.
In 1967, science fiction editor Arthur W. Saha applied the term "trekkies" when he saw a few fans of the first season of Star Trek wearing pointy ears at the 25th...
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| x Young Fogey |
The term Young Fogey was humorously applied, in British context, to some younger-generation, rather buttoned-down writers and journalists, such as Simon Heffer, Charles Moore and, for a while, A. N. Wilson. The term is attributed to Alan Watkins...
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| x Yuppie |
Yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") is a 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s.
Although the term yuppies had not appeared...
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