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Potápky
Potápky (males, "The Grebes") and bedly (females, "The Parasol mushroom, Parasol Mushrooms") were a Czech urban youth subculture primarily defined by the interest in American culture, primarily in swing music. It corresponded to the subcultures of ''Swingjugend'' (literally "Swing Youth", commonly translated as "Swing Kids") in Nazi Germany and ''zazou'' in France at the same time period.Petr Koura, Swingová mládež a nacistická okupační moc v protektorátu Čechy a Morava' ("The swing kids and the Nazi occupational power in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia"), Ph.D. Thesis, 2010 ("A Student in the Protectorate and His Free Time") Potápky were distinguished by their eccentric fashion ("zoot suit", de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swingjugend
The Swing Youth () were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin, they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mostly middle or upper-class students, but also including some in the working class. They admired the " American way of life", defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism, especially the Hitler Youth (). They loosely structured themselves into “clubs” with names such as the Harlem Club, the OK Gang, and the Hot Club. This underground subculture, distinctly nonconformist with a focus on African-American music, was active in the German youth scene. Despite being largely apolitical and unstructured, the Swing Youth were targeted and, in some cases, repressed by the Nazi government. Name The name ' was a parody of the numerous youth groups that were organised by the Nazis, such as the '. The youth also referred to themselves as ''Swings'' or ' ("Swingity"); members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Bluegrass
Czech bluegrass is Czech interpretations of bluegrass music that emerged during the middle of the twentieth century in the southeastern United States. The music's history and performance in the Czech lands, however, make it more than simple example of mimesis. The American genre and style have been absorbed and transformed in the Czech context to produce a spectrum of uniquely local phenomena. These musical compositions still bear enough relation to their inspiration to merit the "bluegrass" name. Czech Bluegrass can be considered with respect to ideas of transculturation, appropriation, traditionalism, and "world" music. Background Czech interest in things American dates to the nineteenth century, and is suffused with luminous conceptions of the Old West, cowboys, American Indians and other iconic images. Being in a socialist economy, American ideologies inspired the musicians and artists to tramp. Czech Tramping emerged as its main vector after 1918 in the newly formed C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tombakowa Młodzież
The ''tombakowa młodzież'' (tombak youth) were members of a youth subculture in Warsaw during World War II. History During the Second Polish Republic jazz became an increasingly popular genre of music among young urbanites. Following the Nazi occupation the jazz phenomenon intensified with groups of youths in Warsaw becoming noticeable for their love of jazz, pleasure seeking attitude, and style of dress. Members of the subculture were reputed to use sophisticated German in the presence of Nazis in an acerbic display of flattery. While the German propaganda newspaper '' Nowy Kurier Warszawski'' condemned the ''tombakowa młodzież'' for their style of dress, participants of the subculture were also derided as traitors to Poland due to their seemingly carefree behaviour under the occupation. The ''tombakowa młodzież'' have been considered the progenitors of the later post-war bikini boys subculture. Style Comparable in fashion to their French contemporaries the zazous, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zazou
The zazous were a subculture in France during World War II. They were young people expressing their individuality by wearing big or garish clothing (similar to the zoot suit fashion in America a few years before) and dancing wildly to swing jazz. Men wore large striped lumber jackets, while women wore short skirts, striped stockings and heavy shoes, and often carried umbrellas. Origins of the movement During the German occupation of France, the Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazi occupiers, had an ultra-conservative morality and started to use a whole range of laws against a youth that was restless and disenchanted. These young people expressed their resistance and nonconformity through aggressive dance competitions, sometimes against soldiers from the occupying forces. The Zazous were to be found throughout France, but were most concentrated in Paris. The two most important meeting places of the Zazous were the terrace of the Pam Pam cafe on the Champs-Élysées and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stilyagi
Stilyagi ( rus, стиляги, p=sʲtʲɪˈlʲæɡʲɪ, "stylish, style hunters") were members of a youth counterculture from the late 1940s until the early 1960s in the Soviet Union. A stilyaga ( rus, стиляга, p=sʲtʲɪˈlʲaɡə) was primarily distinguished by snappy clothing—preferably foreign-label, acquired from ''fartsovshchiks'' (those who engage in ''fartsovka'') —that contrasted with the communist realities of the time, and a fascination with '' zagranitsa'', modern Western music and fashions corresponding to those of the Beat Generation. English writings on Soviet culture variously translated the derogatory term as " dandies", " fashionistas", "beatniks", " hipsters", or "zoot suiters". Today, the stilyagi phenomenon is regarded as one of the Russian historical social trends which further developed during the late Soviet era (notably the Stagnation Period) and allowed "informal" views on life, such as hippies, punks and rappers. Characteristics Thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protectorate Of Bohemia And Moravia
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexation, annexed territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945), German occupation of the Czech lands. The protectorate's population was mostly ethnic Czechs, Czechs. After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, the Third Reich had annexed the German-majority Sudetenland to Germany from Second Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia in October 1938. Following the establishment of the independent Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovak Republic on 14 March 1939, and the German occupation of the Czech rump state the next day, German leader Adolf Hitler established the protectorate on 16 March 1939, issuing a proclamation from Prague Castle. The creation of the protectorate violated the Munich Agreement.C The protectorate remained nominally autonomous and had a dual system of government, with German law applying to ethnic Germans while other residents had th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterculture Of The 1940s
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Houghton Mifflin. . (1993) p. 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. In the 1960s and Europe before fading in the 1970s... fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest." A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes. Countercultures differ from subcultures. Prominent examples of countercultures in the Western world include the Levellers (1645–1650), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), and the globalized counterculture of the 1960s which in the United States consisted primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
