In our country with turbulent social environment and superior life, today's hip-hop civilization is no longer a source of street civilization integrating art, music and sports to cultivate and temper young people's performance talents and show their own characteristics.
It should be said that the most wonderful country of street civilization in Asia is Japan. Especially in cities with high degree of internationalization and prosperous economy, such as Tokyo.
When it comes to street civilization, it's easy to think of hip hop. To some extent, HIP-HOP has indeed become synonymous with street civilization.
Hip-hop, which comes from the working class at the bottom of new york, is the physical expression of black civilized life. There are two styles of schools: new york and LA. Music, dance, graffiti, tattoos and costumes are secondary components of hip-hop culture. Since HIP-HOP comes from a humble background, its final activity place can only be the street, such as street dance, street basketball and skateboarding, which exists as an authentic civilized form of self-entertainment, self-expression and self-venting. Hip hop people are very easy to identify. They marched in the city with tape recorders, played loud music, accompanied by exaggerated and dazzling dance steps and costumes that were always bigger than each other, and brazenly declared to people that we were hip-hop.
Japanese teenagers are greatly influenced by American civilization, so HIP-HOP is quickly accepted and popular by Japanese teenagers. But they also made some changes, such as adding graffiti to the civilized elements and figures in our country. In terms of wearing, it is not only a typical costume of hip-hop, but also a collocation. Japan is an introverted and quiet nation, so hip-hop people are not so ostentatious. I saw a group of hip-hop dancers in the palace in Tokyo. All boys are twelve or thirteen years old, clean, wearing skateboard shoes and loose clothes, wearing baseball caps backwards, wriggling their limbs defiantly and trying some difficult measures. HIP-HOP was originally a very ostentatious civilization, but when it arrived in Japan, it became very low-key, with no noisy music, exaggerated expressions and movements. Their conversation and laughter were quite restrained, for fear of disturbing the solemn and quiet palace.
Like all underground civilizations, the fierce and dazzling hip-hop civilization has been involved in the mainstream entertainment circle, and the ancient promotion tactics constitute the new mainstream civilization. As early as 1994, rap made great gains in pop music, and many hip-hop people made money and improved their lives. Street dance has also entered the gyms and clubs full of petty bourgeoisie from the street and become the daily life style of the middle class.
When a civilization emerges from the ground, from the edge to the center, from the street to the stage, from the material paradise to the commercial society, it begins to gain vitality and decline.
Therefore, street civilization is essentially the civilization of teenagers, because they are not bound by precepts, do not need practical support, and despise commercial society. When adults are exhausted and overworked for their career success, they wander the streets all summer and do nothing.
Besides HIP-HOP, there are more street civilizations in Japan, such as the famous mobs. The old man rode a motorcycle and wore metal ornaments, and deafening music came from the car stereo. He marched through the city in full view. In recent years, off-road vehicles have become popular in the streets. On the congested streets of Tokyo, an off-road vehicle often appears, catches a glimpse and then disappears into the traffic.
If we want to talk about Japanese street civilization, we can't help but say that it is the unique street civilization in the world-Harajuku civilization.
After World War II, Harajuku became a US military base. The old people in this area are naturally influenced by American civilization, and a group of hippies, the earliest Harajuku people, have emerged. Tomorrow Harajuku is famous for gathering fashionable and ancient teenagers. Harajuku has also surpassed the simple place names and become a street civilization. There is a bamboo road in Harajuku block, which is the territory of the so-called bamboo boy. They are the new owners of Harajuku. These young people under the age of 20 wear bold, novel, facial features, and even strange clothes. Every weekend, they gather from the suburbs of Tokyo to get off the road. They do nothing but stand on the street and show their clothes. They don't have much money in their pockets and are not covered with famous brands, but they are well dressed, avant-garde and maverick, and have become a symbol of Harajuku civilization.
Street civilization is accompanied by urbanization. Looking down from the Tokyo Tower, the rows of buildings and dense streets are unacceptable to the eyes, but these streets are a paradise for street civilization in Tokyo, where generations of old people have grown up. When a group of young people sell their youth, the new young people will be higher and higher. Their authentic and non-commercial civilization features are the source of vitality and beauty of street civilization.
The street life in Japan is rich and colorful, and the street civilization of the elderly is only a part of it. In public places in Japan, you can often see some street performers. The street civilization of young people is a kind of self-expression and self-entertainment. They don't need other people's approval and appreciation, but they just act on their own initiative, but street performers are different. Some street performances are planned, organized and professional, and are often associated with activities such as catering, entertainment and tourism in other places. For example, a dynamic Hawaiian dance performance at the entrance of Fuji TV is to promote the tourist routes in Hawaii, and the live sculpture of Disneyland is to attract more tourists. There are also some street performances by vagrants or street performers, which are more or less commercial.
More cities in Japan, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, are contradictory in terms of urban civilization. In Tokyo, the elegant and beautiful palace gardens are in sharp contrast with ancient masterpieces, antique temples and shrines, resplendent skyscrapers, dim lanterns in quiet alleys and dazzling neon lights in bustling cities. Tokyo is an ancient metropolis, while maintaining the oldest tradition. The consistency of this contradiction is often manifested in Japanese street civilization and street performances, such as a boy who dances hip-hop in the palace and a violinist who works in Asakusa Kannonji.
Asakusa, just hearing this quaint name is enough to arouse people's reverie. It is the most representative old traditional area in Tokyo. There are clean stone roads, faint street scenes and Kannonji, the oldest temple in Tokyo. Busy as a temple fair every day. On both sides of the 300-meter-long stone road from the main entrance of the temple to the main hall, there are dozens of shops selling various edo-style goods. In the winter morning, tourists are everywhere, and girls wearing kimonos and clogs can be seen walking under the stone road and praying in front of the temple.
At the front door of the temple, a street performer, a short and handsome local with blond hair and blue eyes, played the violin with audio equipment and the melody in the horn. He plays familiar and unfamiliar western music, and his temperament and charm are like an ensemble concert in a concert hall, which makes tourists wonder whether they should give money, even though there is a small bowl in front of him to put money in. It seems that he doesn't care about his income, but he is intoxicated with music. So he stands under the old building in Kannonji, singing one song after another, accompanied by tourists coming and going. On the night of shallow grass, the charm of the west and the amorous feelings of the west are so harmonious, flowing on the quaint stone road and on the strings of street performers.
Street civilization is a brand-new civilized way to release oneself. It makes teenagers lose the joy of music and sports and study art. There are many street civilizations, and almost any street art can become a street civilization. Modern street civilization lost its development in the 1970s, mainly concentrated in Europe and the United States, especially the hot time zone of street fashion, street music rap music and rock music in the United States. There are also hip-hop, hip-hop, skateboarding and roller skating. With street clothes, graffiti and so on.
Today's street civilization breaks the tradition and dresses exaggeratedly. Abstraction highlights characteristics. These characteristics make young people like it, and quickly convey it, taking root and sprouting all over the world. In our Asia, there are Japanese and Korean rap groups first, then street dance groups, and then some root rap groups, who can dance together and perform complex and difficult movements.
Under the influence of South Korea and Japan, hip-hop and dance troupes also appeared in China in the early 1990s. Especially in 2000, almost every province had street civilization. And many people like hip-hop, especially in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong. It can be said that hip-hop is the first sport, and the first dance is Mr. Wang's first choice. In the frontier, street civilization has just prevailed and is liked by young people. It can be said that Hainan developed late. Although it has been going on for two years. But it is still immature.
The composition of street civilization:
Dress
Oversized clothing can be regarded as a classic style of hip-hop civilization. It is said that the origin of this way of dressing is closely related to the origin of hip-hop civilization. It turns out that hip-hop civilization was developed by blacks, Jews, Mexicans and other colored people in the United States as early as the 1970s. In advance, the economic situation of colored people in the United States is not superior to that of whites, but more children are born than whites. In order to prevent these children from undressing too quickly, they often buy a bigger T-shirt. Coupled with the strong flavor of hip-hop civilization movement, loose clothes are much more convenient.
Severe punishment is not the whole picture of hip-hop. There are also differences in the breakdown: skateboarders like to wear skateboard shoes, which are more freewheeling and wear-resistant when engaging in sports, and are well-known brands in skateboarding sporting goods, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, Expedition, DC, etc. Stomp the yard likes to wear complex style sneakers of sports brands such as Nike and Adidas, showing a clean and procrastinating style, among which Adidas shoes are liked by dancers who play floor initiative; Among the street clothing brands, there are well-known ESDJ, Tribe, Joker and FUBU. Tommy hilfiger, POLO Sport, Nautica, OAKLEY and sports brands Nike and Adidas are also popular among dancers.
Scribbled handwriting
Graffiti, that is, street graffiti, is rare in alleys, underpasses and subway stations in some residential areas in the United States. Graffiti teenagers graffiti on the wall with spray paint to express their ideas, ideas or gangs to divide the territory; Originated in the late 1960s, it gradually became a street art.
Graffiti teenagers stop graffiti competitions with each other, and whoever has more works will become famous. They "draw" their names or pen names in conspicuous places in all possible public places to express their contempt for the prestige of adults. They play hide-and-seek with the police with spray guns full of paint. These spray guns are often stolen.
They daubed mysterious sentences, rude skeleton-like characters, faces with original mask colors, and obscene gestures in children's games. Graffiti works are visual rap and jazz, and they are original contributions to visual arts. As an extension of the concept of populism, graffiti artists consume a small amount of sketches, printed matter, oil paintings, sculptures, murals, T-shirts, buttons and flags.
200 1, fashion designers learn from the popular civilization of hip-hop and can find colorful or colorful graffiti works on clothes, skirts, high heels and handbags.
street dance
Street dance includes mechanical dance, break dance and so on. , from the improvisation of American street dance. These street dancers are mainly black or Mexican. Most popular street dances originated in Brooklyn, new york, USA. Some black or Mexican children dance in the street all day, forming various factions, and naturally developing different characteristics in their dances.
Hip-hop is a kind of energetic dance, full of movement, with a wide range of bars, and the threshold dancers are healthy. One-handed handstand, forward roll, cool car roll, back spin and other measures belong to performances with high difficulty coefficient. Stamping the yard must adhere to sufficient physical support, strong will and courage.
Some smart businessmen in Shenzhen made a fortune by "street dance", which brought the prosperity of street dance in a sense. Some dance schools and fitness centers have set up street dance classes, and the business is very hot. When shopping malls promote goods or hold celebrations, street dance is often invited to play the role of entertainment and rendering atmosphere.
hip hop
1967, a Jamaican immigrant put two CDs and a mixer together for the first time in new york, USA, and launched the "scratch music" initiative, which attracted more people to enjoy it on the street. As the operator of the record player, DJ became the spokesman of the prevailing civilization at that time. Of course, it is not enough to just play CD, but also to have a good sense of pitch and beat, in order to mix two different songs beautifully; A more advanced method is scratch, which is called scraping records. Create sharp sound effects. DJ has been popular abroad for more than 20 years, and has become a special civilization. Some international competitions, large and small, have been held, among which the most credible competition is called DMC.
rapist
Raper(MC) refers to the owner of cerem ony in the party. A good M C should be able to arouse people's emotions, talk to people, beat time with human voice, and simulate the sound of machine recovery, such as drums or s cratch, so it has evolved into R ap methods such as R AP. M C is not only an actor, but also an emissary of H ip-H op civilization. A M C with distinctive group color can promote the prevalence of action Zen, music and clothing, which can also be seen from so many black singers endorsing clothing brands.
Trick riding
Nowadays, for many years, the elderly not only use bicycles as a means of transportation to and from school. For some people, the word b or B M is not strange at all.
The correct name of boy b is B MX, and the full name is cross-country cycling. It is a bicycle cross-country sport that declined in the United States in the middle and early 1970s. In the mid-1980 s, I began to take B MX to the mountains to play. It was more fancy than skateboarding, jumping higher and more comfortable. There are hundreds of measures, the most fundamental is the static balance of the car, such as rear wheel jump, front wheel jump, wheel cleaning, car repair, drift and crossing the bridge. B MX's body is usually made of alloy, which can accept the impact of falling from the center of several meters high. There are also many special features in the design. For example, the handlebar can rotate 360 degrees without being limited by the brake line. The appearance of B MX in the movie "E T" makes it a representative of popular civilization.
In Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, acrobatic cycling races are divided into three types: U-tube race, alpine race and park race. These competitions have brought acrobatic cycling to the public, but the center of this sport still insists on the streets.
Skateboard; skateboard; skateboarding
In the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, American surfing music and movies led the trend, and people sought the pleasure of ocean surfing in the design of a surfboard. The first skateboard was launched on 1959. At the end of 1980s, the appearance of wooden barriers and street venues made skateboards come back to life in a self-help way, and these skateboards began to cultivate their own star athletes.
Skateboarding has a far-reaching influence on the world trend civilization. P unk music, which athletes like to listen to, took off their earthy coats and put on retro tennis shoes, which once became a world trend.
roller skating
The idea of roller skating lasted for about 300 years. Finally,/kloc-A Dutchman tried to nail wooden rollers under his shoes and enjoy skating. 1979, an American ice hockey player found a pair of old inline skates and bought this design. Since then, inline skating has become popular all over the world.
From 65438 to 0984, the United States began to develop roller skates for different purposes, and Rolerblade has always been the guiding brand of the international flywheel industry.
motor scooter
Biman is another new sports product after skateboarding, and its speed can reach 20 kilometers per hour. This new product comes from Japan.
Although we can see ordinary old people and women shopping on scooters in the streets of Shenzhen, this is not the representative of street civilization, because street civilization is the plaything of the old "cool" generation. A scooter is like a small bike. Its front adopts the structure of bicycle and its lower part adopts the structure of skateboard, but it only needs two wheels. Suppose you will do the following tricks to prove that you have reached the point of "ecstasy": grab the rear wheel with your feet, grab the front of the car with your hands, and lift the front of the car with great force. Now the wheel is the center of gravity, turning twice in midair, and the fierce one can turn three times; The front wheel may be clamped, with the front wheel as the center of gravity and the rear wheel tilted and rotated.
[Edit this paragraph] Street wandering-street music, street musicians and others.
"Do we often equate street performers with ragged, dirty and blind beggars?" How should such a question be answered? I believe several people will give some answers. The reason is complicated. In our country, which is known as the 5,000-year history of civilization, street art and its followers have won people's heartfelt appreciation-Han E, a singer in the pre-Qin period, can "linger for three days", but he can't win the respect of Yongmen people because of begging and selling songs along the street; Song artists in Goulan Washe in the capital of song dynasty and "wild" artists in Qilu are important inheritors of China traditional music, and they can only find some objective descriptions in official history and anecdotes. Before being bound, famous Chinese songs such as "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Listening to Song" had been with him for many years. Only after being bound, were they recorded and arranged by "Bole" who knew music, so as not to be peerless ... All these show that although there are a large number of "street artists" in Chinese history, most of them can stay in history as long as they are lucky.
In the history of oriental civilization, there have also been a few wandering artists with the nature of street musicians. As can be seen from the materials, the nature and musical activities of wandering artists in medieval Europe are similar to the contents and methods of street musicians we discussed. No one knows where they came from or where they wandered. They roamed France, Britain, Germany and Italy, playing their music in the official and court, sowing the seeds for the development of European art music. However, these vagrant artists, who were born in poverty and have no fixed address, have not been recognized by the "official"-the church in advance. So there are few records about them in history.
In the early Middle Ages and modern times, these wandering artists were usually called bard or Jongler. With the expansion of their scale and the intensification of their influence, as well as the improvement and development of the social and historical environment, wandering artists gradually entered the works of writers and historians, which made us know something about wandering artists and Jungle. Paul long, a music historian, has some detailed explanations in his book Music in Oriental Civilization. He narrated that the origin of wandering artists can be traced back to ancient Rome, and their literary knowledge and musical talent let people peek into the remnants of modern popular drama performances and other festivals. Bards were indispensable throughout medieval Europe.
Even in the course of the development of oriental art music that people are familiar with tomorrow, there are many shadows of street music. For example, Haydn's creation of classical music directly benefited from his peasant experience. He got a lot of music nourishment from the countryside and the government, even on the street. Haydn often uses shallow official tones as his creative materials, including German, Bohemian, Croatian, Hungarian and Gypsy tunes. These music materials are the accumulation of his early life experiences. Before that, Haydn often took one more person on official tours in the countryside, sometimes divided into the experience of obtaining official music materials and improvisation, and he often participated in performances by street and square artists. This way not only narrowed the distance between Haydn and his life and personality, but also enabled him to obtain rich music sources.
From this point of view, street music, as a way of music activity, is not unique to a certain country or society, nor is it a civilized scene presented by ancient society. It is actually a continuation of a universal civilization tradition.
The ancients just ignored this civilization scene, so that when studying in the United States, Dr. Qin Luo, a musicologist, was confronted with desolation when he was engaged in the discussion in this field-not only could no reference materials be found in the world, but unfortunately the United States did not even have an introductory text.
In absolute terms, readers are lucky. Tomorrow, we will see the latest effect of this classification: Dr. Qin Luo's experience of collecting folk songs in different places in the past eight years has come to an end-his first monograph on street music, Street Music: the epitome of American society and civilization (People's Music Publishing House, 200 1 year1month), has been published, and it is also the first monograph on street art abroad. The book selects dozens of representative singing scenes of American street music, stops depicting and infiltrating contemporary American civilization with the narrative technique of musical anthropology, and narrates and discusses with more than 20 pictures of street music taken by the author on the spot. The pictures and texts are mutually illuminated, and the relaxed words and pictures contain monotonous academic discourse. Considering the music knowledge level of ordinary readers, whenever professional terms and nouns appear in the narrative of the article, the author also deliberately inserts many "narrative" short articles for shallow explanation, so as to increase the accumulation of readers' music knowledge and help them understand the original intention of the article. In order to strengthen readers' sense of the scene and understanding, the author also selected 15 songs from the collected voices and noises of street musicians, pressed them into CDs and stuck them on the back of the book for readers to listen to at the same time, which made the book achieve the publishing effect of integrating words, pictures, sounds and knowledge, academics and interest.
[Edit this paragraph] Street basketball
Street-ball originated in the United States, and the game doesn't need to stop on the right basketball court. You can set up a basketball stand on a flat hard ground half the size of a basketball court in a city square or street to stop the game. In recent years, three-person basketball was introduced to China, and it was suspended for many times in some large and medium-sized cities, which was very popular.
When it comes to street basketball civilization, we can't help but mention West Fourth Street in Manhattan and Lake Park in Harlem, new york, where many heroes and myths of street basketball have been born. Earl manigault is one of the legends. He can take a quarter off the top of the backboard at will, and his quick dribbling and cutting make his opponent hard to defend. As long as he is 6' 2( 188), he can beat NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who is 7' 2(2 18) at will. Since then, goats have been. However, due to the influence of street gangs and drugs in the United States, many street players can't participate in the NBA league even with the best strength, so they can only complete their basketball career on the street.
Because of this, street basketball can be passed down from generation to generation, and each street player has his own unique style and method to win the recognition and respect of the audience. Hot sauce may be the most popular street player in 2 1 century. Because he invented many new tricks, street basketball is more ornamental and entertaining. If you can watch him play with your own eyes, you will really understand that street basketball is not just a sport, but an art, which makes you feel shocked by street basketball.
Street Basketball is based on HipHop's street basketball. Throw away all kinds of complicated rules and get off the street. In the streets, let's enjoy the fun of free basketball with the beat of HIPHOP.