AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville
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Lecture #2: the original gangsters and subcultural theory. The first hip: before the civil war, four writers set the intellectual underpinnings of hip . Influenced by industrialization and urbanization of america (contact) Create a literature/culture free from european influence. To become american hip: root yourself in the present. Puritanical, anglo traditions stated that: the role of the individual is clearly defined, one should subordinate the self to serve the larger community, one should conform to community values. John jasper: preached a personal relationship with god, god is everywhere and in everything. Transcend(entalist) hip: pause, celebrate the common, dig yourself, holiness of the self. First notion of man as divine, able to transcend society by creating himself anew: new realities. Shadow culture: people who live and think different from the mainstream but who participate in its daily activities : in the world, not of the world . While transcendentalists were creating hip, america was exploring the advertisement:
