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.^ Hipster (contemporary subculture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hipster is a slang term which appeared in the 1940s.- hipster - Search Results - MSN Encarta 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC ca.encarta.msn.com [Source type: General]
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^ In the 1990s and 2000s it was used in various, sometimes contradictory ways, often to describe types of young, recently-settled ...- hipster - Search Results - MSN Encarta 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC ca.encarta.msn.com [Source type: General]
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^ Young urban middle/upper class interested in non mainstream culture AKA hipsters describes you're target audience.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
[1] .^ In some contexts, hipsters are also referred to as scenesters ."- Our Bands are Leaving the Nest 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.regenmag.com [Source type: General]
^ In some contexts, hipsters are also referred to as scenesters .- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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[2]
.^ It is difficult to give a precise definition of "hipster culture" because it is a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior[s]."- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the "Hipster."- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
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^ This string of connotations led to the more general use in the 1990s, but contemporary hipsters are not generally associated with 1940s hipsters, or with drug culture.- What Is a Hipster? | eHow.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.ehow.com [Source type: General]
[1] .^ Lorentzen argues that “hipsterism fetishizes the authentic” elements of all of the “fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge,” and draws on the “cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity” and “gay style”, and then “regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity” and a sense of irony.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ One commentator argues that "hipsterism fetishizes the authentic" elements of all of the "fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge," and draws on the "cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity" and "gay style", and "regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity" and a sense of irony.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ This has been the case for a number of fringe movements in the United States, including grunge, punk and hippie subcultures.- What Is a Hipster? | eHow.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.ehow.com [Source type: General]
[3]
History
Origins in the 1940s–1950s
.^ The term was used originally in the 1940s and 1950s to describe aficionados of jazz, and it eventually described many members of the Beat Generation, but its usage declined in the 1960s, with the advent of hippies.- What is a 'hipster' and who coined the term? 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.funtrivia.com [Source type: General]
^ The 1959 book Jazz Scene by Eric Hobsbawm (using the pen name Francis Newton) describes hipsters using their own language, "jive-talk or hipster-talk," he writes "is an argot or cant designed to set the group apart from outsiders."- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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[4] .^ Hipster is a slang term which appeared in the 1940s.- hipster - KBCafe Search 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.kbcafe.com [Source type: General]
^ I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others .
^ Hipster is a slang term that appeared in the 1940s.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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[4]
.^ The first dictionary to list the word is the short glossary "For Characters Who Don't Dig Jive Talk," which was included with Harry Gibson 's 1944 album, Boogie Woogie In Blue .- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ It was not a complete glossary of jive, as it only included jive expressions that were found in the lyrics to his songs.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ You usually weren't allowed to play blues and boogie woogie in the average Negro middle-class home.- The White Negro 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hipster (contemporary subculture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The entry for "hipsters" defined it as "characters who like hot jazz."- hipsters - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC au.encarta.msn.com [Source type: General]
^ The entry for "hipsters" defined it as "characters who like hot jazz."- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ Who cares, hipster, rocker, punk, hippy, millions of people who define themselves by a cliche term based on dress and social habits.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
[5] .^ Negroes will show how middle-class they are and beats what white Negroes they are.- The White Negro 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC web.mit.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, includ...
^ Hipsters are usually people in their teens to mid twenties that live a lifestyle that is against the mainstream culture.- hipster - KBCafe Search 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.kbcafe.com [Source type: General]
[4] The 1959 book
Jazz Scene by
Eric Hobsbawm (using the pen name Francis Newton) describes hipsters using their own language, "jive-talk or hipster-talk," he writes "is an
argot or
cant designed to set the group apart from outsiders." However the subculture rapidly expanded, and after
World War II, a burgeoning literary scene attached itself to the movement.
[4] .^ The idea of a hipster is something that people who claim not to be hipsters have made up.- Wrath at hipsters misguided - New Trends | Lost At E Minor: For creative people 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.lostateminor.com [Source type: General]
^ Hipsters generally drink a lot (Pabst Blue Ribbon), smoke a lot (Parliament Lights) and usually went to college majoring in art, philosophy, or English.- Why are hipsters so cynical and rude? [Archive] - QLC Message Boards 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.quarterlifecrisis.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg used it to refer to individuals who lived outside of the mainstream culture and explored spiritual lifestyles.- What Is a Hipster? | eHow.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.ehow.com [Source type: General]
Kerouac described 1940s
hipsters as "rising and roaming America, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere [as] characters of a special spirituality."
[6] However, it was
Norman Mailer who gave the movement definition. In an essay titled "
The White Negro" Mailer painted hipsters as American
existentialists, living a life surrounded by death — annihilated by atomic war or strangled by social conformity — and electing instead to "divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self."
[4]
1990s and 2000s
"Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking
Coldplay.
^ My friend made a comment like "I bet you and Nate would really get along."
^ You are a socialite, a debutante - someone who has a ton of friends.
^ Well looka here, looks like my old friend, Harry The Hipsters coming down here .- Harry Hipster Gibson Lyrics 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.hyzercreek.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ A. Some obscure number you've never heard of.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ They're the ones I'm worried about, for they may never emerge.- Half Japanese, by Erik Davis 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.levity.com [Source type: General]
^ They define who and what you are.
.^ Kanye West on Jay Leno made me think the stunt was staged .- Smells like indie spirit: Is alternative music going back to its roots? | Music | The Observer 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care."
.^ In the late 1990s, the term started to be used in new, sometimes mutually exclusive ways.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ In the 1990s and 2000s it was used in various, sometimes contradictory ways, often to describe types of young, recently-settled ...- hipster - Search Results - MSN Encarta 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC ca.encarta.msn.com [Source type: General]
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^ In the late 1980s and 1990s, "alternative" became the term used to describe the "terrain of musical activity" that resulted from local infrastructures for a variety of musical activities developed in and through punk scenes [Straw 496].- On Durham and identity 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC lists.ibiblio.org [Source type: General]
.^ Shop at thrift stores for most of wardrobe.- Are you a Christian hipster? - Comments - Crunchy Con 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC blog.beliefnet.com [Source type: General]
^ Independent movies, alternative music, lifestyle often bring people together.- A Case for Hipsters (of color)? at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.racialicious.com [Source type: General]
^ In some circles it became a blanket description for middle class and upper class young people associated with alternative culture , particularly alternative music , independent rock , alternative hip-hop , independent film and a lifestyle revolving around thrift store shopping, eating organic , locally grown, vegetarian , and/or vegan food, drinking local beer (or even brewing their own), listening to public radio , and riding fixed-gear bicycles .- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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[1] Time Magazine notes how instead of creating a culture of their own, hipsters proved content to borrow from trends long past, stating: "take your grandmother's sweater and
Bob Dylan's Wayfarers, add jean shorts,
Converse All-Stars and a can of Pabst and bam — hipster."
[4]
.^ In 2003 Robert Lanham 's satirical book The Hipster Handbook described hipsters as young people with "...- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ August 20 , 2008 04:41 pm Link The problem with the term 'hipster' is that it's not accurate for the people that this article describes.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Young urban middle/upper class interested in non mainstream culture AKA hipsters describes you're target audience.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
mop-top haircuts, swinging retro
pocketbooks, talking on
cell phones, smoking European
cigarettes... strutting in
platform shoes with a
biography of
Che Guevara sticking out of their bags."
[7] Lanham further describes hipsters thus: "You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the
Reagan administration" and "you have one
Republican friend who you always describe as being your 'one Republican friend.'"
[4]
.^ In early 2004, Gavin Mueller wrote an article entitled "Hipster or Not?"- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ Rob Horning developed a more complicated critique of hipsterism in his April 2009 article in PopMatters entitled "The Death of the Hipster".- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ I’ll start by sharing an excerpt from the article that started it all in September 2005–“A New Kind of Hipster”—which I wrote for Relevantmagazine.com: .- Introducing: Christian Hipsters | conversantlife.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.conversantlife.com [Source type: General]
for
.^ The Hipster Handbook Robert Lanham Humor Anchor Trade Paperback ...
^ The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham .
Mueller argued that the "... hipster lifestyle is reduced to a
.^ But in talking about this album, he discusses all the wider issues involved in arts criticism, like taste, class, and education.
He claims that the term 'Hipster' is far too vague and broad to have any semblance of essential meaning".
[8]
In 2009, the lead singer for alt-rock band
The Lemonheads stated that the band has "been doing some gigs at hipster venues".
[9]
In 2005,
Slate writer Brandon Stosuy noted that "
Heavy metal has recently conquered a new frontier, making an unexpected crossover into the realm of hipsterdom." He argues that the "current revival seems to be a natural mutation from the hipster fascination with post-punk, noise, and no wave," which allowed even the "nerdiest indie kids to dip their toes into jagged, autistic sounds."
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investigation of a musical culture that many had previously feared or fetishized from afar.”
[10]A backlash against the newest wave of hispter culture has been growing steadily in recent years.
.^ REPREEZ - Five-piece band playing Creedence to country rock The ReSessions - Good, Solid, Pop, Rock and Blues from the 50's to the present day.- Band Listing Index for Kent Gigs 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.kentgigs.com [Source type: General]
^ This Brooklyn based band are into both post-punk and psych rock, right up my alley.
^ By Chelsi | Published 8/9/2006 A Brand New Indie/Alternative Playlist Indie rock and alternative punk comprise a huge number of bands and a wide variety of styles.- Indie Bands - Associated Content - Topic - associatedcontent.com 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]
.^ It’s useful for pro-life enthusiasts and Monsanto big-business, but it’s also quite useful for Hip-hop, fashion and indy-music as well.
^ When I look at the hipster culture, I see music and a fashion that portrays and encourages complacency, cynicism, selfishness, and vanity.- Lobster in a Bucket: Hipsters are not Devils and Evil is Ubiquitous 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.chattablogs.com [Source type: General]
^ The film highlights the clothes, the music, the scooters and club scene of a lifestyle which originated in England in the 1960s, but is alive and well in contemporary New York.- CRISPERANTO.ORG: All Things Quentin Crisp! The Quentin Crisp Archives: A Bibliography 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.crisperanto.org [Source type: General]
That same year, on his televised stand-up special
Shameless, comedian
Louis C.K., although never using the word "hipster," described his hatred for people in "cool, indie" coffee shops that wear "snow hats in the middle of summer" and say things like "yeah, me too."
[13]In 2008,
Utne Reader magazine writer Jake Mohan described "hipster
rap," "as consisting of the most recent crop of MCs and DJs who flout conventional hip-hop fashions, eschewing baggy clothes and gold chains for tight jeans, big sunglasses, the occasional
keffiyeh, and other trappings of the hipster lifestyle." He notes that the "old-school hip-hop website
Unkut, and
Jersey City rapper Mazzi" have criticized mainstream rappers who they deem to be poseurs or "... fags for copping the metrosexual appearances of hipster fashion."
[14] .^ Prefix Mag writer Ethan Stanislawski argues that there are racial elements to the rise of hipster rap.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ He claims that there "...have been a slew of angry retorts to the rise of hipster rap," which he says can be summed up as "white kids want the funky otherness of hip-hop...- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ While hipsters are defined by elements of nonmainstream cultural practice, there is a contradiction in the increasing popularity and commodification of the hipster lifestyle.- What Is a Hipster? | eHow.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.ehow.com [Source type: General]
.^ He claims that there "...have been a slew of angry retorts to the rise of hipster rap," which he says can be summed up as "white kids want the funky otherness of hip-hop...- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ It says so just up there!- Why We Hate Indie Kids | FreakyTrigger 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC freakytrigger.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Scene While a contemporary term for hipster or bohemian and other insiders of art related movements, scene kids are also associated with listening to screamo, techno, punk rock , indie rock, and hip hop , and other forms of unconventional music.- Subcultures M-M-Mega Thread - Page 3 - Meez Forums 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC forums.meez.com [Source type: General]
without all the scary black people."
[15]In 2008, Damian Joseph's article "Indie Music's Hipster Heaven" in
BusinessWeek described
Pitchfork Media as "hipsterdom's musical tastemaker". He noted that the esoteric e-publication's website gets 250,000 daily hits from "...indie music fans in their 20s and 30s checking out the latest music news and reviews". Joseph states that when the website was first developed in 2004, it "...gained credibility by focusing on independent music ignored by traditional media outlets—bands such as
Arcade Fire and
Spoon".
[16]Critical analysis
.^ Christian Lorentzen of Time Out New York claims that metrosexuality is the hipster appropriation of gay culture.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ New York Times bestseller!- Handmade Hippie Creations 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ "These hipster zombies… are the idols of the style pages, the darlings of viral marketers and the marks of predatory real-estate agents," wrote Christian Lorentzen in a Time Out New York article entitled ‘Why the Hipster Must Die.'- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
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He writes that "these
aesthetics are assimilated—cannibalized—into a repertoire of meaninglessness, from which the hipster can construct an identity in the manner of a collage, or a shuffled playlist on an iPod."
[3] He argues that "hipsterism
fetishizes the authentic" elements of all of the "fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge," and draws on the "cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity" and "gay style," and then "regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity" and a sense of irony.
.^ These have all shaped who and what I am today.
^ He claims that this group of “18-to-34-year-olds”, who are mostly white, “have defanged, skinned and consumed” all of these influences “into a repertoire of meaninglessness”.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ I also have an 18 year old daughter who lives in Texas too.
[3] .^ This one being 'hipsters' as you say.- Introducing: Christian Hipsters | conversantlife.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.conversantlife.com [Source type: General]
^ At least since the '40s, when an outsider subculture of bebop jazz musicians defined themselves differently from the "squares" and Miles Davis recorded The Birth of the Cool, "blackness" has had a privileged position in the universe of Cool ( Might magazine's Summer 1997 cover story "Are Black People Cooler than White People?"- Virginia Film Festival : Cassavetes' Dance by Richard Herskowitz 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.vafilm.com [Source type: General]
^ There's Christians that thinks it's "cool" to rip phone books in half (to God's glory of course) others who think that the ultimate sense of cool is Jeremy Camp.- Introducing: Christian Hipsters | conversantlife.com 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.conversantlife.com [Source type: General]
.^ A "blackbox" is any kind of illicit electronic device which can bypass normal circuits: the original permitted its users to make long-distance phone calls without paying for them.- Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984) 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.wsu.edu:8080 [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[3]
.^ She claims that the "whole point of hipsters is that they avoid labels and being labeled.- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ In a Huffington Post article entitled "Who's a Hipster?", Julia Plevin argues that the "definition of 'hipster' remains opaque to anyone outside this self-proclaiming, highly-selective circle".- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ This is also why they are so concerned with "just being themselves" and avoiding labels.- Twisted Jenius- Evil Rant #42- Damn Hipsters! 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.twistedjenius.com [Source type: Original source]
However, they all dress the same and act the same and conform in their non-conformity" to an "iconic carefully created sloppy vintage look".
[17]
.^ Rob Horning developed a more complicated critique of hipsterism in his April 2009 article in PopMatters entitled "The Death of the Hipster".- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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^ Horning explores several possible definitions for "hipster".- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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He muses that the hipster might be the "embodiment of
postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics," or might be "...a kind of permanent cultural middleman in hypermediated late capitalism, selling out alternative sources of social power developed by outsider groups, just as the original 'white negros' evinced by
Norman Mailer did to the original, pre-pejorative 'hipsters'—blacks...." Horning also proposed that the role of hipsters may be to "... appropriat[e] the new cultural capital forms, delivering them to mainstream media in a commercial form and stripping their inventors... of the power and the glory...".
[18] .^ Personally, I think hipsters are just hilarious.- What is a 'hipster' and who coined the term? 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.funtrivia.com [Source type: General]
^ Almost anything can be art; you just have to look at it in a certain way.- PORT - Portland art + news + reviews 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.portlandart.net [Source type: General]
^ I hope that's ok, if it's not let me know and I'll find a way to legally steal it because it looks really cool =) but yah, let me know how you feel about it because I'm planning on putting some of my work up at Shakabrah soon and I wanted to know if it was okay to display it.
Furthermore, he argues that the "hipster is defined by a lack of
authenticity, by a sense of lateness to the scene" or the way that they transform the situation into a "self-conscious scene, something others can scrutinize and exploit."
Time writer Dan Fletcher states that "Hipsters manage to attract a loathing unique in its intensity".
.^ I do support countercultural style, music, and arts.- A Case for Hipsters (of color)? at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.racialicious.com [Source type: General]
^ Origins** In the 1940s and 1950s the term hipster came into usage by the American Beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and evolved to also describe the bohemian-like counterculture that formed around the art of the time.- pinkpunkadots: Hippies, Yuppies, & Yippies 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC community.livejournal.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the 1990s and 2000s, it was used in various, sometimes contradictory, ways, often to describe types of young, recently-settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non- mainstream fashion and culture, particularly alternative music , independent rock , independent film , magazines such as Vice and Clash , and websites like Pitchfork Media .- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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[4] According to Fletcher, "Hipsters manage to attract a loathing unique in its intensity.
.^ However, it is inappropriate to label an entire group as “apathetic” and the dead end of western civilization.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Google was obviously the end of Western Civilization.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.adbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ Not by failing to use my metaphor or suggesting an abrupt end to Western civilization, but by suggesting that the movements of the past were right and this new one is wrong because it's become too trendy.- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC secure.adbusters.org [Source type: Original source]
[4]
.^ Who really cares if people hate on the hipsters?- Wrath at hipsters misguided - New Trends | Lost At E Minor: For creative people 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC www.lostateminor.com [Source type: General]
^ Vintage Fashion News LA Vintage blog .- LA Vintage blog | Vintage Fashion News 20 September 2009 15:42 UTC www.lavintage.com [Source type: General]
^ Some people are not fond of hipsters Elise Thompson, an editor for the LA blog LAist argues that "people who came of age in the 70s and 80s punk rock movement seem to universally hate 'hipsters'", which she defines as people wearing "expensive 'alternative' fashion[s]", going to the "latest, coolest, hippest bar...- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Thompson argues that hipsters "...don’t seem to subscribe to any particular philosophy...- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Boston University School of Theology 17 September 2009 8:08 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[or] ...particular genre of music." Instead, she argues that they are "
soldiers of fortune of style" who take up whatever is popular and in style, "appropriat[ing] the style[s]" of past countercultural movements such as punk, while "discard[ing] everything that the style stood for."
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See also
References
- ^ a b c Douglas Haddow (2008-07-29). "Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization". Adbusters. http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ^ Tim Walker (2008-08-14). "Meet the global scenester: He's hip. He's cool. He's everywhere". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/meet-the-global-scenester-hes-hip-hes-cool-hes-everywhere-894199.html. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ^ a b c d Lorentzen, Christian (May 30–Jun 5, 2007), "Kill the hipster: Why the hipster must die: A modest proposal to save New York cool", Time Out New York, http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/4840/why-the-hipster-must-die
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Dan Fletcher (2009-07-29). "Hipsters". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1913220,00.html. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
- ^ This short glossary of jive expressions was also printed on playbills handed out at Gibson's concerts for a few years. It was not a complete glossary of jive, as it only included jive expressions that were found in the lyrics to his songs. The same year, Cab Calloway published The New Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary of Jive, which had no listing for Hipster, and because there was an earlier edition of Calloway's Hepster's (obviously a play on Webster's) Dictionary, it appears that "hepster" pre-dates "hipster."
- ^ Kerouac, Jack. "About the Beat Generation," (1957), published as "Aftermath: The Philosophy of the Beat Generation" in Esquire, March 1958
- ^ Robert Lanham, The Hipster Handbook (2003) p. 1.
- ^ http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/pop_playground/hipster-or-not.htm
- ^ http://www.gigwise.com/features/50958/On-The-Cover–Evan-Dando
- ^ Brandon Stosuy (2005-08-19). "Heavy Metal: It's alive and flourishing.". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2124692/. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ^ Armor For Sleep (2007-10-15). "Interview". Absolute Punk. http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=281777. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ Armor For Sleep (2007-09-19). "Williamsburg Music Video". Sire Records. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq9RhEvtvnY. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ Louis CK (2007-08-19). "Shameless". Unknown. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3517a50bce/louis-ck-awesome-possum-from-standupfan. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ Jake Mohan (2008-06-13). "Hipster Rap: The Latest Hater Battleground". Utne Reader. http://www.utne.com/2008-06-13/Arts/Hipster-Rap-The-Latest-Hater-Battleground.aspx?blogid=32. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ^ Ethan Stanislawski (2008-06-20). "The Chicago Reader has hip-hop hipster backlash against hip-hop hipster backlash". Prefix Mag. http://www.prefixmag.com/news/hip-hop-hipster-backlash/19451/. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ^ Damian Joseph. Indie Music's Hipster Heaven. Available online at: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/apr2008/db20080421_466682.htm
- ^ Julia Plevin. "Who's a Hipster?" Huffington Post. August 8, 2008
- ^ Rob Horning (2009-04-13). "The Death of the Hipster". Pop Matters. popmatters.com. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/the-death-of-the-hipster-panel/. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ Thompson, Elise. "Why Does Everyone Hate Hipster Assholes?" February 20, 2008 [1].
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