Quotes About Subculture

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In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

The two most obvious English mutations to have occurred in America in the last decade go by the names punk and skinhead.

Have you never met anyone who works in a record store? There is no greater repository of unjustified arrogance in the world.

Eight-foot high posters in plate glass windows advertised the latest fashions: for young girls the look was crack whore; for young boys, indecisive pimp; for teenagers of both sexes, the image was androgynous vampire, expensively accessorised.

That amazing poise of character, which we call serenity is the closing lesson of subculture, the fruitage of the soul. It is treasured as know-how, greater to be preferred than gold—yea, than even nice gold. How insignificant mere cash searching for appears in assessment with a serene existence—a existence that dwells in the ocean of Truth, below the waves, beyond the attain of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!

For the most part, metal has been underground. It's too dangerous for mom and dad and schools. It will probably always be that way.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

I first was introduced to really, I guess, underground electronic music when I was in middle school.

There will always be an underground.

Dance music always goes through its changes; many styles come have their light and go back to the underground 'til it happens again.

We were the underground reporters.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

There's this whole underground world of amateur television production.

The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the time, the big guys just steal from us.

Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

I'm usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.

I did the underground scene growing up. I lived in Albany, New York so I'd go see Stigmata, Hatebreed, Murphy's Law so I was in that whole scene.