1. &
Countercultures

2. After today…
You should be able to tell the difference between subcultures & countercultures
You should be able to identify the purpose of subcultures within dominant society
You should be able to identify the qualities of sub/countercultures

3. What is a subculture?
Any group that exists within dominant, mainstream culture…a world within a world
Shared ideology…values, norms, beliefs
Shared aesthetic…dress, pastimes, music, zines/blogs, etc
Shared vernacular…specialized language

4. Types of Subcultures Vocational subcultures Recreational subcultures
Ethnic subcultures

5. Job Jargon: Truck Driving
"Reefer" ... refrigerated trailer
"Big Road" .... Highway
"Flip Flop" ... return trip
"Chicken Coup" ... truck scales
"Bear" ... Police

6. Youth Subcultures
In your groups make a list of 5 youth subcultures we have here at the high school:
Identify what shared values/ideology the group embraces
Identify what shared aesthetic the group embraces (music, dress, hairstyles, body modifications, pastimes, etc.)
Identify what shared vernacular the group uses (slang terms or specialized language)

8. Purpose of both sub and countercultures
Gives people a place where they are empowered
Connects likeminded people
Makes invisible people visible
Allows people to escape the identity they are born into
Gives people a place to construct identity

9. Otherkin
Subculture of people, primarily Internet-based, who identify in some way as other than human
Believe themselves to be mythological or legendary creatures, explaining their beliefs through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul
Angels, demons, dragons, elves, extra-terrestrials, fairies, kitsune, lycanthropes, and vampires

11. Steampunk
Based on science fiction literature blended with Victorian Era culture…
Think H.G. Wells and Jules Verne
Clothing: gowns, corsets, petticoats and bustles; suits with vests, coats and spats; or military-inspired garments. 
Example: Panic at the Disco’s “The Ballad of Mona Lisa”
Music – industrial dance/synthpunk

13. Hipsters

15. LARPers
Participants physically act out their characters' actions as decided by the gamemaster
May last hours or days
May be in public or private
Most characters dress up and have alternative personas
Horror, zombie, fantasy, post apocalyptic, assassin, etc.

17. What is a counterculture?
A group who’s values and norms deviate from or are at odds with those of dominant culture:
Usually viewed as negative/dangerous, but not always (e.g. women’s lib groups in the 70s or the Civil Rights movement of the 60s)
Hippies, KKK, early punk, Satanists, Hells Angels/Pagans, Anarchists, Cults

18. Why do people join countercultures?
Members of countercultural groups are…
Usually outsiders
Alienated
Freaks, geeks, nerds and losers
Marginalized people with little power over their status in the world
Don’t fit the mold of what American cultures says is “normal”

19. Hippies

20. 60’s Counterculture
Developed first in the US and UK in the early 1960s The movement gained momentum during the U.S. government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam.
Values: Anti-authority, Personal freedom: emphasized change and experimentation, Anti-war, Anti-authority, sexual freedom
Politics: Supported Civil Rights movement, Anti-war movement, Feminism, Environmentalism, Gay Liberation movement
Music: The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan

21. Punk Counterculture Emerges in London and NYC in the 1970s
Max’s Kansas City & CBGBs
Backlash against the hippie counterculture
Values: nihilistic, rejected materialism, anti-establishment
Politics: Anarchism
Music: Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads, Patti Smith