Youth Culture

Youth culture is the totality of cultural expressions and experiences living in specific youth groups. A youth culture is not just a youth, but it has the added feature that there are values ​​that take shape in language, clothing, body adornment ( hairstyles , tattoos , piercings ) and music. A youth culture thus has an inside and an outside. Youth cultures can be a means for young people to develop a (social) identity. As a result of several developments after the Second World War, as depillarization and secularization , the identity development of young people is more and more a do it yourself process. Youth Cultures enable young people to take on different roles and try out.

Music is an important means of identification for young people. The beginning of youth culture is therefore sometimes set on April 12, 1954 : the day takes Bill Haley plate Rock around the clock on. This is the moment of a musical turning point: there is a new music for youth, adults who sounds provocative in the ears. In 1956, the film Rock around the clock out, featuring live performances by Bill Haley, the Platters andTony Martinez . After serious disorder in England (September 4, 1956), also stores in Netherlands the flash in the pan. It is the beginning of a youth cultural movement that is opposed to the world of adults.

In the sixties, lives strongly that youth culture, a homogeneous group that agitates against the adult culture. But very quickly shatter the youth culture in various youth subcultures .

Known youth subcultures
Hippies at the Woodstock Festival

Punk Girls (2003)

Hiphop breakdancing 2000
 * 1950-1970
 * Artistic Lingen (Pleiner) (ca. 1955-1965)
 * Beatniks (Dijker) (ca. 1955-1970)
 * Indo Rockers (ca. 1955-1970)
 * Frog (beat) (ca. 1960-1965)
 * Soul Frog (ca. 1960-1970)
 * Hippies (flower power) (ca. 1965-1970)
 * Provo (ca. 1965)
 * Skinheads (ca. 1969)
 * 1970
 * Lolita (since 1970 but was fully recognized in 1980)
 * Rasta (from about 1970)
 * Hardrock (from about 1975)
 * Metalheads (from about 1978)
 * Disco (ca. 1975-1980)
 * Punk (from about 1975)
 * New Wave (ca. 1975-1980)
 * 1980
 * Lolita
 * Crusty
 * Hiphop (from about 1980), with the major part of the rap music
 * Gothic (from about 1980) Gothic is closely related to the New Wave subculture, was abroad New Wave known as Gothic.
 * Thrasher (ca. 1983)
 * Straightedge (ca. 1985)
 * Alto, alternative people as contemporary variant of the hippie movement (from about 1985)
 * House (from about 1985)
 * 1990
 * Grunge (from about 1990)
 * Skate (from about 1990)
 * Gabber (from about 1990)
 * Urban (from about 2000)
 * Emo's (from about 2004) Not to be confused with the subculture 'Scene'.
 * Jump (from about 2004)
 * Tecktonik