Youth Subcultures Research Articles

Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85

ABSTRACT British punk emerged in tandem with the formation of Sex Pistols, a band framed by a style and an aesthetic constructed, in part, by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood via their London shop SEX (1974–76). The shop displayed fetishwear and accoutrements designed to fuse youth and sexual subcultures, deploying sex as a cultural weapon to provoke and confront. This article examines the Sadean influences that found expression through punk, suggesting that the Marquis de Sade had a seminal if diffused impact on the punk-informed cultures that evolved through the 1970s into the 1980s. Though often indirect—and bound to broader interpretations of sexual behaviour—the actions, aesthetics and ideas associated with the ‘Divine Marquis’ seemingly tallied with the mood of a country caught in a period of socio-economic and political change.

Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice

The impact of social media use on youth subcultures, such as graffiti writers, has been rapid and dramatic, bringing with it a number of significant transformations that present both opportunities and challenges. This paper explores the impact of the Internet and social media on a community of graffiti practitioners. I argue that the rise and uptake of online social networking platforms such as Instagram and You Tube have offered a range of affordances to the practice of graffiti writing. These affordances include: greater accessibility to graffiti culture; learning opportunities; and opportunities for wider distribution and curation of graffiti pieces. Simultaneously, social media challenges the significance of ‘community’, that is, the physical social interaction afforded by participation in real world graffiti crews. The findings suggest that while there are tangible benefits from the use of the Internet and uptake of social media by the graffiti writing community, it is the physical communal bonds experienced within a graffiti crew that are vital to the wellbeing and continuity of the culture. This paper contributes to our understanding of how social media affects youth more broadly and specifically how social media platforms are transforming the experience of youth subcultural practice.

Realization of Modern Children's Musical "Frog Masha" by O. Spiliotti in the Context of the Youth Subculture

The author considers the process of directing a modern children's musical "Frog Masha" in accordance with the requests and interests of the young audience of the information technology era. The relevance of the study lies in the need to outline the milestones of rethinking the modern children's repertoire in musical theater in accordance with the specifics of the perception of art works by a certain age category. The purpose of the study determines the specific directorial approaches in the implementation of the musical on children's themes, taking into account the peculiarities of the modern subculture of the younger generation. The research methodology was chosen as a comprehensive cross-sectoral approach based on the synthesis of methods: 1) observation and processing of results in order to identify the specifics of the perception of children's audience; 2) genre-stylistic in order to outline the specific features of modern children's musical; 3) interpretive and experimental in order to determine their own directing techniques in the implementation of the project. The scientific novelty is substantiated, which involves the definition of the director's concept in solving vocal-instrumental, spatial-scenographic and plastic-choreographic aspects of modern children's musicals with the actualization of the problem of replacing real life with virtual one. Evidence is provided that the ideological and thematic content of the art project raises the topical issue of the subculture of the younger generation, when real life gaining the necessary material experience is replaced by virtual perception, illusory due to the exaggeration of information technology. The specifics of compositional construction of the project are determined, which organically combines the multi-genre music structure of the musical with the characteristics of the personalities, their rational actions into a single integral spectacle, able to emotionally influence the young viewer's choice of new media in his life. In the process of realization of the art project the author's directing techniques were found: combination of the real world with the virtual in the scenographic solution of the play; synthesis of polygenre vocal-instrumental component with different plastic-choreographic components in solving artistic images of characters; interactive form of interludes as a kind of bridge between the parts of the musical. The author predicted the need for the latest research on the impact of information technology on the artistic practice of musical theater, which requires further directorial research and experiments in solving children's issues, which would meet modern challenges and current realities.

The phenomenon of football fanaticism in the youth subculture

This article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of football fanaticism in the youth subculture. The relevance of the research is largely due to the role played by the youth subculture in modern society, an integral part of which is the informal "fan movement", which manifests itself in various fields — music, fashion, politics, ideology, sports, etc. "football fanaticism" has become widespread in Russia, the analysis of which allows us to highlight the essence and characteristic features of youth "fanaticism" in general. To study this problem, a questionnaire survey, a focused group interview, and conversations on forums with fans of Spartak, Zenit, and CSKA football clubs were used as quantitative and qualitative research methods. These methods were the most suitable, because with their help, the opinion of schoolchildren about football fanaticism was studied, groups of teenagers who consider themselves football fans were identified, their subculture was studied, the causes and factors of the spread and "departure" of teenagers into fan groups were determined. According to the results of the study, the image of a football fan was formed. According to schoolchildren, a football fan is a devoted sports fan belonging to a close-knit group of peers, promoting sports, the priority value for which is a favorite hobby. Thus, the questionnaire survey made it possible to identify groups of "fans" and a range of questions for further investigation of the phenomenon using a group focused interview.

Теория и методология исследования культурной безопасности молодежи Юга России

The article aims at defining the concept of cultural security in the youth environment of the South of Russia and taking into account the specifics of the multicultural region. The methodology substantiates the multidimensional research construct, which is based on the actualized principles of socio-constructivist and socio-cultural approaches including the position of neo-institutionalism and social interactionism. The important result of the conducted research is the justification of cultural security in the youth environment of the South of Russia as the state of “unity in diversity”, the development of a common contour of youth action based on integrative cultural values, including permissible differences in the context of social and cultural risks. It is concluded, that the priority of cultural security is to achieve the synthesis of cultural tradition and cultural innovation in youth subcultures. The perspective of the research is the search for optimal ways of cultural security in the youth environment of the South of Russia based on the actualization of the model of cultural security presented in the study and as its consequences (implementations), the development of opportunities for cooperation between society, government structures and youth organizations in the direction of the stability of the cultural and spiritual sphere of the South of Russia.

Research on the New Mode of Communication of Mainstream Culture under the Background of Youth Subculture

The online youth subculture has built an interactive platform between mainstream ideology and youth groups to a considerable extent. With the maturation of new media, mainstream culture in the new era should take the initiative to establish communication and dialogue with youth subcultures, correctly grasp its underlying motivations, put forward a guiding approach, promote cultural diversification and cultural innovation, and consolidate the mainstream ideology leading role.

A New Road Map for Research on Youth Subculture in Cyberspace from the Perspective of Pop Music

This paper suggests a new road map for studying the youth subculture in cyberspace from the perspective of pop music, exploring the trend of the development of pop music, and interpreting its style paradigm, which is conducive to grasp the future development trend of pop music and the live track and value demands of young people. At the same time, it enriches the subculture research theory, such as Bakhtin's theory, Social mutual construction theory, and other related theories that play a particular role in promoting the perfection and development of the subculture research system. The investigation of youth subculture in cyberspace from the perspective of pop music can provide some reference for other scholars to study subculture in online popular music among youth.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HAT, OR TO THE STORY OF ITS ABOLITION: CLAIR HUGHES’ BOOK «HATS»

This article reviews Clair Hughes' book «Hats» that was published by New Literary Review (in Russian: «Новое литературное обозрение») in 2019. The British researcher shows the history of hats through the prism of New European values, perceptions and etiquette. Hats act as the most important factor of democratization and emancipation. The author links hat fashion to the development of urban culture (boulevards, passages, cafes), entertainment culture (horse races, theaters, music halls, cinemas), youth subcultures (teddy boy, etc.). Clair Hughes pays close attention to the history of the cylinder and bowler hat, the Gainsborough hat and the Merry Widow hat, the cloche and the beret. The sources of the study are literary and pictorial works (by John Galsworthy, Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Walter Sickert, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Sera, René Magritte) and illustrated magazines. Hats on stage, in movies and sports, hats as markers of social differences, famous modifiers (Lucille, Rebu, Dache) and iconic images in politics, show business (Churchill, Sinatra, Max Linder, Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Faye Dunaway, Gene Shrimpton) are the subject of Claire Hughes' book. The author ends her study of New European fashion with a history of the rejection of hats in post-war culture.

«KALUSH» IS A RAP GROUP AT THE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL YOUTH HIP-HOP DIRECTION IN UKRAINIAN MODERN MUSIC

The aim of the article is to analyze the development of youth hip-hop direction in Ukrainian contemporary music within the creative activity of the rap group «KALUSH» in retrospective aspect of musicology and performance. There are discussed the conditions of transformational trends of spreading and promoting quality rap culture. The author has revealed the importance of using authenticity and national folklore traditions in integration with electronic music in hip-hop youth direction in pop music of Ukraine, modern show business and mass culture. There are used the research methodology of comparative, historical-logical, analytical and art methods. Such methodological approach allows the author to clarify the features of Rap in art at the stage of formation and development of hip-hop culture, including youth subculture in the spread of transformational processes taking place in modern Ukrainian pop music and show business. The author is considered the influential factors of the group «KALUSH» on the development of rap music of the performing industry and use of ethnofolk motifs with electronic music in the integrated synergy between the band and the audience. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the main elements of the creative activity of the KALUSH group are revealed in accordance with the development and spread of transformational processes in modern pop art and show business. There is described the use of integration ethno-folklore origins, Ukrainian folklore motifs and electronic music in the development of the rap-cultural industry in show business as a synergetic genre of youth hip-hop. The author is noticed the significant contribution of the group in raising Ukrainian rap music to a higher level of youth subculture. Conclusions. The reflection of the realities and evolution of rap music in pop art is been in constant search of new faces who are able to update the direction of rap music. The popularization of national folklore features, the establishment of the performing rap group «KALUSH» on the territory of the modern Ukrainian pop industry in the conditions of fundamentalization, globalization and commercialization in the modern music market hasn't been studied well and it is at the stage of change and transformation.

STREET ART AS A DECORATION OF THE FACADES AND WALLS OF BUILDINGS IN SIVERSKODONETSK: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

The article highlights the problem of the prewar development of street art in modern cities of Ukraine using the example of Severskodonetsk as the regional center of Luhansk region. The research notes that modern industrial cities of Donbas are often monotonous and faceless in terms of architectural construction involving technologically outdated building structures, poorly planned and weakly structured territory, and growing social problems of residents. It is considered that the task of urban planners and architects is to create comfortable living conditions for dwellers of residential areas, turning these poor areas into attractive parts of the city. The prewar situation with street art in Severskodonetsk is analyzed. Street art in Severskodonetsk, its analysis, and recommendations for the development of street art in the city are examined. It is believed that in the war-zone region, it is necessary to pay attention to street art, which could not only significantly beautify the city’s appearance but also distract its residents, including many refugees, from negative thoughts. Taking into account the fact that after the war, its inhabitants will return to the city, including young people, it will be essential to pay more attention to the youth subculture and street art as one of these subcultures. It is noted that insight into the problem of street art as one of the brightest youth subcultures is one of the most important tasks in the modern city, so decorating street houses of modern cities and, hence, forming recommendations to solve this problem is a critical task today.

Смысловое пространство молодежной субкультуры футбольных фанатов

Смысловое пространство молодежной субкультуры футбольных фанатов

Punk and Oi! Rebellion? Music and commodification of the youth subcultures in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1980-90s

Punk and Oi! Rebellion? Music and commodification of the youth subcultures in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1980-90s

Environmental approach to the design analysis of youth subcultures in the course design and modern lifestyle

Environmental approach to the design analysis of youth subcultures in the course design and modern lifestyle

МОЛОДЕЖНЫЕ ДЕСТРУКТИВНЫЕ СУБКУЛЬТУРЫ КАК ФАКТОР ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ЭКСТРЕМИЗМА В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РОССИИ

The possibility of influencing the development and reproduction of extremist manifestations of such a phenomenon as destructive youth subcultures is analyzed. The necessity of adjusting the ideological and political content of the state youth policy of the Russian Federation in order to create effective ideological and regulatory barriers to counter political extremism in the youth environment, is argued.

Digitalne navike pripadnika generacije Z - studenata sportskih smerova

The new virtual reality of today's society and its interaction with members of the younger population is an increasingly common subject of research. The question is whether and to what extent it is possible to stop the domination of the digital. Is sport an activity that can compete with the new virtual reality and the world of video games? The paper presents online habits and inclinations towards video games of the first-year students of the Belgrade College of Sports and Health, not only qualitatively - in order to examine the time spent on video games and compare it with the time spent on sports and recreation, but also qualitatively, in terms of content - topics that occupy this particular segment of population, talented in sports and sports-oriented, but at the same time digitally-oriented. The paper has demonstrated, on a selected sample of sport-oriented members of Generation Z, some deviations from the digital characteristics of the generation they belong to demographically, the generation in which the use and application of technology is dominant in obtaining any practical information, as well as in communication and entertainment. The sample consisting of students of sports academic courses has demonstrated that a very high percentage of these students practice sports on a regular basis defying the current sedentary lifestyle. Many of them do not belong to the present-day youth subculture - 'the gamers' community', and even those who do belong to the pop culture of computer games prefer sports computer games as their choice of virtual content.

Formation of Youth Subculture in Cyberspace in Pop Music: a Theoretical Framework

The goal of this study is to examine the theoretical underpinnings of the creation of adolescent subcultures in cyberspace via the medium of pop music. Cyberspace studies demonstrate a broad variety of individual norms and beliefs that revolve around the same core challenges faced by young people. It was one of the first attempts to evaluate how young people engage with popular music media that their portrayal of pop youth culture made one of the most important contributions. For this inquiry, a literature review was undertaken. This section explains the theoretical foundations that will be used to support this research's concepts in order to be able to read music texts in order to be able to understand youthful subcultural activities with justification. This research takes a closer look at one particular component of the phenomena to provide light on how today's youth use the Internet to engage in computer-mediated social life via music. Subcultural material may be disseminated digitally, but it is important to explain how the Internet serves as a subcultural resource and a way to appreciate popular music.

Основные этапы формирования молодежной субкультуры в Азербайджане (исторический аспект)

The purpose of this article is to describe the forms in which the phenomenon of subculture manifested itself and developed in Azerbaijan from the 1980s to 2010, first as part of the USSR, and then during the period of independence. It is noted that in almost all the republics of the former USSR, including Azerbaijan, subcultural social groups were formed, consisting of pro-Western, creative adolescents and youth, which radically differed from official public organizations, pioneer movements and other Soviet ideological lines, were even officially registered under the name of public associations and operated openly. Methods used. The article mainly used the methods of content analysis, the method of generalization, the method of historical analysis and other general scientific methods. Novelty in the article. For the first time in the domestic scientific literature, the issues of the formation and development of the youth subculture in Azerbaijan were subjected to careful analysis. Conclusions. The final part of the article summarizes the analysis of the stages of formation and development of the youth subculture in Azerbaijan, shows the main motives for the emergence of various types of this culture in social and spiritual life. It is also noted that when comparing informal associations in the former USSR with Western subcultural models, first of all, it should be noted that there was censorship in this system, lack of information, inaccessibility of foreign music and periodicals, etc. Due to these factors, the culture of young people was monotonous, dry and gray. Thus, in the examples of 3 types - club, hip-hop and emo, the formation and development of subcultures that existed in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods in Azerbaijan were laid not characteristic of the national mentality of values, forms of behavior and thinking. It is noted that there has always been a chaotic, unstable picture of the subculture in Azerbaijan. In most cases, instead of constancy and staticity, a process of fluidity can be observed in the subcultures of Azerbaijan. This can be seen in the example of almost all subcultural media. In the West, the human subculture is usually both a way of life and a source of income. However, due to the underdevelopment of the phenomenon of subculture in Azerbaijan, carriers of the subculture become a kind of amateurs.

Socio-psychological factors of formation of youth subcultures

Socio-psychological factors of formation of youth subcultures

Youth subculture and education

Educators, policymakers, and the public are often intensely engaged in youth cultures and practices. Nowadays, young people behave in irrational, creative, selfish, deviant, apathetic, generous, committed, tolerant, and many other, often contradictory ways. Educators should attend to widely circulating accounts of youth, because these often yield or buttress attitudes and policies that influence young people. The paper presents the results of a study of youth subcultures as an interactive form of self-identification and socialization of university students’ personality and educational purposes. The theoretical basis of the study was the scientific works of famous domestic and foreign scientists in the field of social sciences, education, and humanities. Research methods: practical and theoretical ones. The theoretical methods are analysis, classification and generalization. The practical methods are sociological survey and testing. The study sample consisted of students at Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. Ya. Kikot, Moscow State University of the Civil Engineering, Russian State Social University and Moscow City University. As a result of the data obtained, the authors of the paper designed a program of additional education for university students in the context of the development of youth subcultures. The designed program is directed towards the interaction of youth subcultures and institutions of higher education. As a result of the testing of the program at the aforesaid institutions of higher professional education, the effectiveness of its introduction into the educational process has been proved.

REASONS OF CONFLICTS OF SENIOR PUPILS WITH THEIR PARENTS:TO THE PROBLEM OF FAMILY ADAPTATION

The psychological determinants for the formation of harmonious family relationships were highlighted: empathically oriented communication, humanistic style of children’s upbringing, their high level of self-esteem, smoothing the difference between “Me-ideal” and “Me-real”, positive attitude from others and self-respect. Based on the results of our observations, which we carried out in 2021 in the educational process of educational activities of secondary schools № 15 of t. Rivne, we can exactly conclude that for senior school age is quite characterized of emotional fluctuations in mood. Some pupils were also characterized (in some cases) by neurotic and protest, sometimes by aggressive behavior, but these were isolated cases. We have diagnosed that tense situations are arisen between parents and children from time to time. However, again, our observations show that maladaptive family relationships are never caused by a single cause. For example, parents’ sexual problems have never been the predominant cause of maladaptive family relationships between parents and children, but aggressive tendencies caused by parents’ sexual problems often exacerbate children’s nervous and aggressive disputes with their parents. And even if young people find a way out of these disputes in some a way, in any case, the attitude towards parents remains negative, as, incidentally, the attitude of parents towards children (hair, clothes, hobbies, leisure, etc.). We identify as the most important topics of conflict of schoolchildren such as: - young people want to communicate, above all, with their peers, to defend their own interests and have weak parental control; - compared to adolescence, the importance of hairstyles and clothes increases significantly among high school students (the conflict is caused by the mismatch between the standards of high school students and the generation of parents). For high school students, the style of hair and clothing were associated with the relevant youth subculture, which was partly seen as some “message” of the adult world; - disagreements with parents and conflict situations on eroticism and sex occur at the age of 12-16, much earlier than in previous generations; - the time spent by high school students at school has been increased significantly. Conflicts between high school students and their parents about schooling are inaccuracies in homework, low school performances, and, at the same time, senior pupils do not have enough time to help their parents with household chores. However, the most important causes of family conflicts are children’s smoking and their use of psychoactive substances. The latter more often there were aggravating relationships between boys and their parents (57% of male pupils and 32% of female ones). There are almost no differences between boys and girls when it comes to smoking (32% of pupils are male and 30% of them are female), and other problems are more common among girls. Senior pupils name the following causes of conflicts with their parents: - great differences in moral and value frames, attitudes and scripts of children and adults, especially in the period of personal growth (parents and children are also diagnosed with differences in personal experience, perception of the world, assessments of their own ethnic and national identity); - lack of clear, consistent boundaries of the transition from awareness of child dependence to the freedom of an adult; - lack of clear, consistent rules for parents to build family relationships, which significantly weaken parental power during the transition of children from childhood to adolescence; - psychological and social differences in characteristics between parents and children. Pupils explain the latter with different ideas of schoolchildren about themselves, their own future, the formation of personally and professionally significant experience of adults. The latter also laments the children’s lack of perception of the evaluative and control role of adults in relations to the needs of pupils in achieving sovereignty; - mental overload of both parents and children and, as a result, – a change in scenarios and scenarios plans of family relationships.