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Alternative culture is a type of
culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups ...
that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or
popular culture Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a ...
, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures. These subcultures may have little or nothing in common besides their relative obscurity, but cultural studies uses this common basis of obscurity to classify them as alternative cultures, or, taken as a whole, the alternative culture. Compare with the more politically charged term,
counterculture 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''. H ...
. In
London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
, Camden Town is known for its alternative culture.


See also

* Alternative fashion *
Alternative housing Alternative housing is a category of domicile structures that are built or designed outside of the mainstream norm e.g., town homes, single family homes and apartment complexes. In modern days, alternative housing commonly takes the form of tiny ...
* Alternative lifestyle * Bohemianism *
Counterculture 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''. H ...
* List of subcultures * History of subcultures in the 20th century * Underground culture


Further reading

*'' The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed'', Heath, Joseph & Potter, Andrew, Harper Perennial, 2004, *''The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism'', Frank, Thomas, University of Chicago Press, 1998, *''Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler'', essay collection, WW Norton & Co, 1997, {{Culture Subcultures