About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: White trash, Lumpenproletariat, Kitsch, Sloane Ranger, Yuppie, Hipster, Boston Brahmin, Chav, Cholo, Redneck, Bogan, Radical chic, Liberal elite, Ned, High culture, Hanseaten, Middlebrow, Fresa, Ah Beng, Preppy, Dres, Gold-collar worker, Winders, Ghetto fabulous, Bobos in Paradise, Young Fogey, Wide boy, Harry, La Luz de Jesus, Paninaro, Spide, Suedehead, Naco, Feral, Trixie, Skell, Gopnik, Bright Young People, Chad, Things Bogans Like, Champagne socialist, Ocker, Crusties, DINKY, Official culture, Yipster, Redskin, Xiaozi. Excerpt: Hipsters (also scenesters) are a subculture of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with musical interests mainly in indie rock that appears in the 1990s. Other interests in media would include independent film, magazines such as Vice and Clash, and websites like Pitchfork Media. Hipster culture has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior." Christian Lorentzen of Time Out New York argues that "hipsterism fetishizes the authentic" elements of all of the "fringe movements of the postwar era-beat, hippie, punk, even grunge," and draws on the "cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity," and "regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity." Others, like Arsel and Thompson, argue that hipster signifies a cultural mythology, a crystallization of a mass-mediated stereotype generated to understand, categorize, and marketize indie consumer culture, rather than an objectified group of people. The term itself was coined during the jazz age, when "hip" emerged as an adjective to describe aficionados of the growing scene. Although the adjective's exact origins are disputed, some say it was a derivative of "hop," a slang term for opium, while others believe it comes from the West African word "hipi," meaning "to open one...
