History of subculture
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- This article is about the History of subculture. For the main article, see Subculture.
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 overtone.
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See also
- History of subcultures in the 19th century
- History of subcultures in the 20th century
- Counterculture by region
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