Street culture is also called HipHop culture, and Chinese translation is hip hop. This culture originated from African-American street rap culture in 1970s. In English, hip means hip, hop means jumping, and hip-hop means gently twisting hip. In 1990s, hip-hop culture landed in Asia and broke out in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Province. With the wave of reform and opening up, it soon spread to the mainland and developed rapidly in big cities. Hip-hop culture was originally a carrier for black people in American slums to express their anger and resistance. For decades, with the help of increasingly developed mass media, it has spread rapidly around the world. Hip-hop culture has also developed from the four basic elements of disc playing, rap, hip-hop and graffiti to skateboarding, street basketball and other performance sports. Nowadays, in large and medium-sized cities, hip-hop culture can be said to be everywhere. For young people, a little rebellious and personality-seeking hip-hop can just represent their views on society and reality, and thus extend to form a new youth cultural style. Such as hip-hop costumes, "hip-hop" sporting goods, Rap rap music, DJ and so on. Even the clothing styles are close to the same. For example, wear a nose ring, some earrings, a wide T-shirt, casual pants, sports shoes, baseball caps, or thick silver earrings, necklaces, bracelets, sunglasses, MD walkman, scooter, backpack, etc. Walking around, braiding hair, perming hair or tying hair ... is full of movement. In the eyes of most people, hip-hop is still an alternative group. In fact, the essence of hip-hop culture is to express and prove yourself more freely and confidently.

When it comes to street culture, it's easy to think of hip hop. To some extent, HIP-HOP has indeed become synonymous with street culture.

Hip-hop originated from the working class at the bottom of new york and is the spiritual embodiment of black cultural life. There are two styles of schools: new york and LA. Music, dance, graffiti, tattoos and costumes are the main components of hip-hop culture. Because of the humble origin of HIP-HOP, its initial activity place can only be the street, such as street dance, street basketball and skateboarding, which exists as a cultural form of pure self-entertainment, self-expression and self-venting. Hip-hop people are highly recognizable. They paraded in the city with tape recorders, played loud music, accompanied by exaggerated and dazzling dance moves and costumes that were always one size older, and brazenly declared to people that we were hip-hop.

Street culture is essentially the culture of teenagers, because they are not bound by precepts, do not need theoretical support, and despise commercial society. When adults are exhausted and overworked for their career success, they wander the streets all summer and do nothing.

At the front door of the temple, a street performer, a tall and handsome foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes, brought his own audio equipment and played the violin with the melody in the speaker. He plays familiar and unfamiliar western music, and his temperament is like holding a solo 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 indulges in music, so he stands in the ancient building of Kannonji, singing one song after another, accompanied by tourists coming and going. On the night of Asakusa, the charm of the East and the amorous feelings of the West are so harmonious that they flow on the quaint stone roads and the strings of street performers.

In China, influenced by Korea and Japan, hip-hop storms and dance troupes also appeared in the late 1990s. Especially in 2000, street culture appeared in almost every province. In addition, many people like street clothes, especially in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong. It can be said that street dance has become the first sport and the first dance is the first choice for students. In Chinese mainland, street culture has just become popular and is loved by young people. It can be said that it developed late in Hainan. Although it has developed for two years. But it is still immature.

The composition of street culture:

Dress

Oversized clothing can be regarded as a classic style of hip-hop culture. It is said that the origin of this way of dressing is closely related to the origin of hip-hop culture. It turns out that hip-hop culture was developed by blacks, Jews, Mexicans and other colored people in the United States as early as the 1970s. At that time, the economic situation of colored people in the United States was not as good as that of whites, but more children were born than whites. In order to prevent these children from undressing too quickly, they often buy bigger T-shirts. Coupled with the strong flavor of hip-hop culture and sports, loose clothes are much more convenient.

Generosity is not the whole picture of Hip-Hop, but there are also some differences: skateboarders like to wear skateboard shoes, which are lighter and more wear-resistant when engaged in sports, and they are all well-known brands in skateboarding sporting goods, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, EXPEDITION, DC, etc. Stomp the yard likes to wear simple style sneakers of sports brands such as Nike and Adidas, showing a clean and neat style, among which Adidas shoes are loved by dancers who play floor movements; 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 very popular among dancers.

Scribbled handwriting

Graffiti, or street graffiti, is common 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 hold graffiti competitions with each other, and whoever has more works will be famous. They "paint" their names or pen names in conspicuous places in all possible public places to show their contempt for adult authority. 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 skulls, faces with original mask colors, and obscene gestures in children's games on the city walls. Graffiti works are visual rap and jazz, and they are original contributions to visual arts. As an extension of popular concepts, graffiti artists have created a large number of sketches, prints, oil paintings, sculptures, murals, T-shirts, buttons and flags.

200 1, fashion designers invariably draw lessons from hip-hop pop culture, and black-and-white or colorful graffiti works can be found on clothes, skirts, high heels and handbags.

street dance

Street dance, including mechanical dance and break dance, originated 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 like to dance in the street all day, forming various factions, and naturally developing different characteristics in their dances.

Hip-hop dance is a kind of energetic dance, full of movement and large range of movements, which requires dancers to have good physique. One-handed handstand, forward roll, windmill turn, back spin and other actions. They are all performances with high difficulty coefficient. Stamping the yard must maintain sufficient physical support and have 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, they often invite street dance performances to add fun and atmosphere.

hip hop

1967, a Jamaican immigrant put two discs and a mixer together for the first time in new york, USA, and created a unique "scraping" action, which attracted many people to enjoy in the street. DJ, as the operator of the record player, has since become the spokesman of popular culture. Of course, it is not enough to play only CDs. Only with a good sense of pitch and rhythm can two different songs be mixed beautifully. A higher skill is scraping, called scraping records. Create sharp sound effects. DJ has been popular abroad for more than 20 years and has become a special culture. Moreover, some international competitions, large and small, have been held, among which the most credible competition is called DMC.

rapist

Raper(MC) refers to the person in charge at the party. A good M C should be able to arouse people's emotions, talk to people, create rhythms with human voices, and imitate the sounds made by machines such as drums or s cratch, so it has evolved into R ap skills such as R AP. M C is not only a performer, but also has the function of cultural messenger of H ip-H op A M C with distinctive personal color can promote the popularity of catchwords, music and clothes, which can also be seen from the endorsement of clothing brands by so many black singers.

Trick riding

Nowadays, many young people not only use bicycles as a means of transportation for school or work. For some people, the word b or B M is not strange at all.

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The correct name of boy b is B MX, and the full name is cross-country cycling. It is a cross-country cycling sport that rose in the United States in the middle and late 1970s. In the mid-1980 s, B MX was taken to play on the flat ground, playing more gaudy, jumping higher and more exciting than skateboarding. There are hundreds of movements, the most basic of which is the static balance of the car, such as rear wheel jumping, front wheel jumping, wheel wiping, car fixing, floating and crossing the bridge. B MX's body is generally made of alloy, which can withstand the impact of falling from a few 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 culture.

In Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, acrobatic cycling races are divided into three types: U-tube race, flat race and park race. These competitions have brought acrobatic cycling to the public, but the core of this sport is still in the street.

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 surfing on land with the design similar to surfboards. The first skateboard was launched on 1959. In the late 1980s, the appearance of sandwich wooden obstacles and street venues revived skateboarding in a self-help way, and this new generation of skateboarders began to train their own star athletes.

Skateboarding has a far-reaching influence on the world trend culture. P unk music, which athletes like to listen to, once became a world trend by taking off a coat with a strong earthy feeling and putting on nostalgic tennis shoes.

roller skating

The idea of roller skating lasted for about 300 years. At first, a Dutch man in the17th century 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 leading brand in 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 some old people and women riding scooters in the streets of Shenzhen, this is not the representative of street culture, because street culture is the plaything of the young "cool" generation. A scooter is like a small bike. The front of the scooter adopts the structure of bicycle, and the lower part adopts the structure of skateboard, but there are only two wheels. If you can do the following tricks, you can prove that you have reached a "perfect" situation: hold the rear wheel with both feet, hold the front of the car with both hands, lift the front of the car hard, turn the rear wheel twice in mid-air, and then turn three times if it is strong; Or clamp the front wheel and tilt the rear wheel to rotate with the front wheel as the center of gravity.