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Subcultures: ethnicity
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Music
rock n roll music listened to by The Teddy Boys and the rockers was influenced by black rhythm and blues music in the USA. Caribbean music, reggae and ska, was listened to by both skinheads and rude boys in the UK. Modern dance music contains many influences from Asian bhangra music.
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Hebdige
E.g. the MODS who imitated the ‘cool’ West Indian style and the SKINS who gained a reputation for racism and resistance to immigration. More recently, black music and fashion are said to have influenced white working class sub-cultures.
British youth sub-cultures can be read as “a succession of differential responses to the black immigrant presence in Britain”.
Rude boys
By the 1960s there were enough Afro-Caribbean youths in the UK to make up their own distinctive subcultures;
The rude boy was not the first subculture of
Jamaica, but it was the first youth subculture
After independence in the early Sixties , over-population was putting extreme demands on the basics of life - housing, work and food. The response to these conditions by young blacks was the start of a creation of a new subculture, unofficially called the ‘scufflers’.
Scrufflers
They carried knives and handguns. They wore sharp 3-button tonic suits and "stingy brim," or pork-pie hats, in imitation of the upper-classes.
The gangster image and sunglasses at all times gave them an image of being 'cool,' a new and distinctly modern value and look. Rude boys were, above all, angry at their low economic position and status in society.
Hebdige (1979) suggests that the first subcultural ethnic style, originating from Jamaica, was that of the Rude Boys.
‘Rudies’ formed a subculture based on looking cool, dealing in cannabis and pimping.
Their music was ‘ska and rock steady’ – both of which influenced the later reggae music style.
Scuffling was basically just scrounging to get by. This often meant involvement in the underground economy. Pimping and prostitution, begging and stealing which became unofficial economic youth activities in the shanty towns of West Kingston, Jamaica
Rastafarians
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Marijuana plays an important part in the religion and subculture as it allows the user to achieve an altered, ‘higher’ state of consciousness.
Whilst Rasta style had some influence on skinhead and punk musical tastes, its appeal to whites was limited by its association with a Black identity and religious system, so making it an ethnic subculture.
Developed in Jamaica too but sees Ethiopia as the Holy Land and the last Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari) as the leader
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Bhangra
This new genre quickly became popular in Britain, replacing Punjabi folk singers due to it being heavily influenced by the infusion of more Western rock sounds.
It created an affirmation of a positive identity and culture, and provided a platform for British Punjabi males to assert their own ethnic masculinity
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Hip-hop culture
Music built on a mix of rap, hip hop and R&B
Originated in African-American, Latino, and Asian communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx.
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Rap with its ‘gangsta’ lyrics based on street life in the ‘hood’ and its aggressive macho style has now been incorporated into mainstream pop but can still be seen as an example of ethnic subculture.
Gangsta
Gangsta Rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that evolved from hardcore hip hop and reflects urban crime and the violent lifestyles of inner-city youths.
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