AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Diy Ethic, Beat Music, List Of Toho Alien Races
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Definitions: exceptionally elusive to define: varying stylistics within punk, nihilist, anarchist, socialist racist, sexist, homophobic, far-right, hated definitions and labels (paradox rejected structure as anarchists but required structure/philosophy as subcultural movement, quintessential diy culture: anything goes. Because of diversity, no unifying characteristic: diy mentality and anti-authoritarianism. Reject everything, create new grabs things: youth movement rebelling against another youth movement: hippies, beats rebelled against mainstream; hippies as technological outgrowth of. Beats, embraced beats as tribal elders, rebelled against war and capitalism: punks looked somewhere entirely new: more marginalization, no. Hippies and hippie music destroyed the fun and edge of rock and roll. 60s rock: virtuosic, rock bands were unapproachable stars, huge concert halls, separated from the audience that created them. Not from within the movement (beat) nor from outside the movement (hippie) 1972: young, unprofessional, more at home practicing than touring . Dissonance, music pain in the ass, don"t conform, success = mediocrity psychedelics community (emerson)
