Hipster

Contemporary hipster counterculture first took off in areas like the Lower East Side and Williamsburg in New York, and a ‘hipster style and range of art’ (Greif, 2010) would naturally soon develop. However, the middle-class profile of a large proportion of hipsters also means that this hipster style would very quickly spread throughout the dominant class. The dominance of a global mainstream, coupled with improvements in communication technologies and globalisation, has led the initial hipster counterculture and its related style to spread at an unprecedented pace, to the extent that it has started to dominate fashion, music, and design to become a part of mainstream culture (Fletcher, 2009). The omnipresence of this hipster movement also means…

What Defines a Hipster? According to Bjørn Schiermer (2014, pg. 169), the term hipster originated in late the 1940s, and “was a term for the decadent connoisseurism and over-refinement of late black jazz culture”. Schiermer also imparts, in an interview with Laurie Taylor, that the “hipster culture is no traditional subculture, it’s less uniform” (Taylor, 2014; Schiermer, 2014). Schiemer also voices the culture explores and appreciates what previous generations did not (Taylor, 2014; Schiermer,…

What is the Hipster Culture Really All About? What word first pops into your head when you first hear the word “hipster”? Some think high top converse, coffee drinker, others think cigarette, beanie wearing, politics lover. No matter what word we think of it always comes back to the millennial version of a hipster. No one really thinks into how this culture started and the background of it all. They first started in the 1940’s when the label was a “beatnik” hipster instead of the known…

Hipsters are a product of rebelling against a consumer society and attempting to diverge against mainstream culture only to become the very culture they despise. Hipsters’ are middle class adults in their early twenties and late thirties that grabbed the public eye during their 2011 Occupy movement. This, in fact, was embodied in the Occupy movement of 2011 in which it was thought that “voices of the working class are sidelined [by the wealthiest 1%]” (Maher 48). As a result, hipsters choose to…

people to discover different styles and spark new interests, it can also create a sense of loss of identity through the limitless world of the Internet as social media and online communities voice a massive amount of opinions that can negatively affect how individuals think for themselves and form their own unique sense of identity. By definition today, “hipsters” are a group of people that value progressive politics, counter-culture, independent thinking, and have a deep appreciation of art and…

/Have you ever heard of the hipster fashion? If not, let me enlighten you. The hipster fashion is responsible for the huge beards, young men are supporting at the moment. You know the ones, you can see them entering the room before the person wearing them does. 2/Now, I’m not saying that I am against beards per-say, but why, oh why, do they have to be so long. I mean what happened to the designer stubble? At least, the designer stubble could be washed whilst washing the face. Whereas, these…

feeds off the kids with insecurities and kids that are different. In most schools the Jocks and the pretty, popular girls are in charge and they get a say in who goes to the parties they go to and where they hang out, most of high school is structured to fit their needs and wants. A kid without many friends, a loner, has trouble finding people he/she can relate to. This makes it hard during group work, partner work, or even finding a lunch table to sit at. Today the 5 main groups or cliques are…

In today’s era modernity, we can see hipster culture become popular day by day due to the uniqueness and diversity that attract people in Malaysia and also some of the other country. The definition of the word “Hipster” itself can be defined as “one who has tastes, social mentalities, and suppositions considered cool by the cool” (Lanham, 2003). Hipster culture is a part of subculture. Subculture means “a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differs…

Sikkema Writing 150 December 4th, 2014 What actually is a “hipster”? We all have been walking and seen somebody who could be considered a hipster in our eyes, with a flannel shirt, big glasses, skinny jeans, and usually an artistic feel to them, because that is how we have been told all our lives what hipsters were. Modern-day society has painted a picture in everyone’s heads on what society should believe a hipster is, which is not always true for anything we are told. Hipsters can be defined…

I. Summary In recent years, we have seen an increase in the people who adopt the hipster culture. The hipster culture is defined as rejecting anything and everything mainstream (Omar 2016). Many hipsters are known for listening to alternative indie music, shopping at thrift stores, being an active liberal protestor, etc. (Weeks 2011). Novelist Hal Niedzviecki realized that similar non-conformist activities and ideals that he himself believed in or partook in after some time became accepted and…