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This article is about the History of subculture. For the main article, see Subculture.
Kafka's porn collection mainly hailed from Franz Blei's small press journals The Amethyst and Opals (in which Mahlon Blaine also published) but some of the explicit descriptions of John Coulthart make me sceptical that this was the only source of this particular X portfolio. Franz Blei was an equivalent to Leonard Smithers in the US and Maurice Girodias in France.

In any historiography of subculture, the term subculture itself is related to four other terms. Counterculture, a term used during 20th century discourse; avant-garde, a fin de siècle term; underground, again 20th century; alternative culture, a late 20th century term.

Subculture itself, which was first recorded with reference to humans in 1936, so that makes it again a 20th century term.

As far as the connotations of our field go, counterculture is political; alternative less so but still to some degree; avant-garde is artistic in nature, although it started as a political term; underground has criminal/cultural connotations; the term subculture has mainly a cultural undertone (see overtone).

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