OUGD501- Subculture and Style Lecture Notes

Dogtown and Z boys (2001)

Skater Peggy Oki

Boys and girls wear the same clothes

Ian Borden 'Performing the City'

Urban street skating is more political the 1970's skateboarding' use of terrains

Challenge original use of a space e.g.. safety rails

South bank closure threat to skaters

Henry Edwards

street skating is about creative expression

Lords of Dgtown (2005)

Parkour/Free-running

About creating use of the city and buildings

Jump London (2005

Nancy McDonald The Graffiti Subculture


Black graffiti writer Prime

Miss Van

Swoon

Mod Girl 
Girls wearing the same shirts as the boys
had money for socialising




Quadrophenia (1979)

Hebdige outlines the hierarchy within the mod subculture 


Hippy girl
-late 60s early 70s
-middle class girl
bad hippy/good hippy
-ideas of punishment for female rebellion
-feminism being born


Riot Grrrl- mid 1990s onwards
-underground punk movement
Bands 
-politically driven
-music is the experience of playing not how good you are


What makes this a true subculture?
-Zines revived from punk ethic

Grunge 
-style without the subculture

Spice Girls
-no empowerment for young women as there is nothing but noise reduction of young women to cartoon representations

Dick Hebridge Subculture: the meaning of style
-subcultures represent noise as opposed to sound

The commodity form
-subculture signs like dress styles and music are turned into mass produced objects
-eg clothing, ripped clothes is an anarchic anti-fashion statement
-become mass produced with rips as part of the design

A threat to the family?
-Punks and Mothers 
-non political threat 

Zandra Rhodes act White Gold Diamond Safety Pin Brooch
- punks challenge the use by piercing skin and clothes

21st century demonisation
-Style provokes a response
-ridiculed articles that define subcultures as social problems

Bricolage: Edwardian Style- Saville Row-Teddy Boy

Roger Mayne (1956)
-Teddy boy culture was an escape from the family

Chris Steele-Perkins the Teds (1979)

Racists give Nazi salute in London 1980

Gavin Watson Skins (1980s)

This is England (2006) Shane Meadows
-political influence in the skin head culture
-representation of other

Post subcultures?
-becoming difficult to pin point what a subculture means