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The 21st-century hipster is a subculture (sometimes called hipsterism). [1] [2] Fashion is one of the major markers of hipster identity. [3]Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, [1] and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative for someone who is pretentious or overly concerned with appearing trendy.
In a 1961 essay, Kenneth Rexroth used both the terms hipster and hippies to refer to young people participating in black American or Beatnik nightlife. [22] According to Malcolm X's 1964 autobiography, the word hippie in 1940s Harlem had been used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes". [23]
Hipster – 1940s subculture [65] Hipster – contemporary subculture [65] Hobo [66] I. Incroyables and merveilleuses [67] Indie [68] Industrial [69] J. Jampec [70]
The hipster subculture rapidly expanded, and after World War II, a burgeoning literary scene grew up around it. [4] In 1957, the American writer and adventurer Jack Kerouac described hipsters as "rising and roaming America, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere [as] characters of a special spirituality". [6]
Jack Kerouac described his mid-century contemporaries as "the new American generation known as the 'Hip' (the Knowing)". [13] In 1947, Harry "The Hipster" Gibson wrote the song "It Ain't Hep" about the switch from hep to hip, Hey you know there's a lot of talk going around about this hip and hep jive. Lots of people are going around saying "hip."
Brazy "Brazy" is another word for "crazy," replacing the "c" with a "b." It can also be used to describe someone with great skill or who has accomplished something seemingly impossible.
In August, Prince William debuted a new look and the internet just couldn’t’t handle it: Facial hair…and lots of it. Since then, his royal following has been fixated on his scruff—and it ...
The beats (the hip people) started calling these students "hippies", or younger versions of themselves. Actually, the counterculture seldom called itself hippies; it was the media and straight society who popularized the term. More often, we called ourselves freaks or heads.