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Street civilization is also known as hiphop civilization, Hip-Hop, the Chinese translation of the name hip-hop, civilization originated in the 1970s in the United States black people a street rap civilization, the English Hip means hip, Hop refers to the one-legged jump, Hip-Hop is the meaning of light twisting swinging hip. In the 1990s, Hip-Hop civilization landed in Asia, bursting Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and other places, with the wave of change and opening up, soon spread to the mainland, in the big cities quickly unfolded. Hip-Hop civilization is finally the United States of America's slums of black people to express resentment and resistance carrier, in a few decades of work. With the increasingly prosperous mass media in the global rapid transmission, Hip-Hop civilization also from the beginning of the four fundamental elements of beatboxing, rap, street dance, graffiti to include skateboarding, street basketball and other play nature of sports. Now in large and medium-sized cities, hip-hop civilization can be said to be ubiquitous, on the elderly, with a bit of rebellion and the pursuit of identity hip-hop can represent their views on society and ideals, and the extension of this, constituting a new style of youth civilization. Such as hip-hop clothing, "hip-hop" sporting goods, Rap rap music, DJs, etc.; even dress style also tends to the opposite. Such as An nose ring, wearing a slip of several earrings, with severe T-shirts, board pants, sports boots, baseball caps, or wear thick silver earrings, necklaces, bracelets, sunglasses, MD Walkman, scooters, backpacks, etc., walking up and down the rugged, braided hair, hot bang head or bundles of hair ...... performance of the dynamic full. In the eyes of a few people, hip-hop or alternative a family, in fact, the essence of hip-hop civilization, is more comfortable, more confident to express themselves and prove themselves.

In our social environment fluctuations, life is superior to the country, the development of today's hip-hop civilization is no longer rendering pornography, violence, negative attitudes towards life and sufferism, and become a set of art, music, sports as one of the cultivation and training of young people to express their talents, show the characteristics of the streets of the civilization sources.

It should be said that the most wonderful country of Asian street civilization is Japan. Especially in the high level of internationalization, economic prosperity of the city, such as Tokyo.

When it comes to street civilization, it is easy to remind people of HIP-HOP, and to a certain extent, HIP-HOP has indeed become synonymous with street civilization.

HIP-HOP originates from the working class at the bottom of New York, and is a physical manifestation of black civilized life. From the style of New York and Los Angeles two major genres. Music, dance, graffiti, tattoos, wearing is the HIP-HOP civilization of the secondary components of the HIP-HOP since the humble origins, and therefore the last place of activity can only be the street, such as street dance, street basketball, skateboarding, as a kind of authentic self-indulgence, self-expression, self-catharsis civilization shape exists. HIP-HOP people have a fierce can be a good place to live.

Japanese teenagers are greatly influenced by American civilization, so HIP-HOP was quickly accepted and prevalent in Japan by a wide range of teenagers. But they also made some changes, such as graffiti to participate in my country's civilization elements and words, in terms of dress is not only HIP-HOP typical dress, there are more with. Japanese people are introverted and quiet people, thus the HIP-HOP people are not so ostentatious. I saw a group of street dancers in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, all boys of 12 or 13 years old, clean, wearing skateboarding shoes and loose clothing, all wearing baseball caps, twirling their bodies and attempting difficult moves. HIP-HOP was originally a very publicized civilization, but here in Japan to become very low-key, no noisy music, no exaggerated expressions and initiatives, talk to each other and laughter is also quite restrained, for fear of disturbing the solemn beauty of the Imperial Palace.

As with all underground civilizations, the fierce and dazzling HIP-HOP civilization has been intervened by the mainstream entertainment industry, and with the help of ancient promotional techniques, it constitutes a new mainstream civilization. As early as 1994 Rap had a great deal of success in popular music, and many HIP-HOP people made money and improved their lives as a result. Street dance has also been from the street into the overflowing petty mood of the gym, clubs, and become a middle-class daily lifestyle.

When a civilization emerges from the underground, from the edge to the center, from the street to the stage, from the physical playground to the business community, it begins to get vitality, to decline.

Thus, in essence, street civilization is the civilization of the youth, because they do not have the constraints of the precepts, do not need practical support, and despise the commercial society. While adults are exhausted and overworked to succeed in their careers, they are on the street on skateboards skating through the whole summer with nothing to do.

In addition to the HIP-HOP people, there are more **** the same street civilization in Japan, such as the very famous storm troopers. Elderly people riding motorcycles, draped in metal jewelry, car stereo playing ear-splitting music, in full view of the crowd waving through the city. In recent years, off-road vehicles have become so prevalent on the streets that they often pop up in Tokyo's congested streets, catching a glimpse and then fading into the traffic.

We can't talk about street civilization in Japan without talking about a street civilization that is probably unique in the world - Harajuku civilization.

After World War II, Harajuku became a U.S. military base, and naturally, the older people in this region were influenced by American civilization, presenting a number of hippie faction, which is the earliest Harajuku clan. Today, Harajuku is famous for its collection of teenagers who dress in fashionable and ancient style. Harajuku has become more than just a place name, it has become a street civilization. The Harajuku neighborhood has a Takeshita Road, which is the domain of the so-called Takeshita Kids, the new owners of Harajuku. These young people, no older than 20, dress boldly, novelty, full of character, and even weirdness. They gather on Takeshita Road every weekend from the outskirts of Tokyo and do nothing else but stand on the street and show off their outfits. They don't have much money in their pockets, and they don't have name brands all over their bodies, but they dress up carefully, avant-garde, maverick, and become the symbol of Harajuku civilization.

Street civilization and the process of urbanization are born with each other, from the Tokyo Tower to look down, the construction of the scales and dense layers of the street so that people's eyes can not be accepted, but it is these streets is the Tokyo street civilization of the playground, the generations of the elderly in this place to grow. When a group of old people betray their youth, new old people will come forward, and their authentic, non-commercial civilization qualities are the source of vitality of street civilization and the wonderful place.

Japanese street life is rich and colorful, the elderly street civilization is only a part of it. In Japan's public **** place, you can often see some street players. Elderly street civilization is a kind of self-expression and self-indulgence, they do not need the recognition and appreciation of others, just in accordance with their own voluntary action, but the street performers are not the same. Some street performances are planned, organized, professional and often associated with local catering, entertainment, tourism and other activities. For example, in front of the Fuji TV station a dynamic Hawaiian dance play is to promote Hawaii's tourist routes, the living sculpture in Disneyland is to attract more tourists. There are also street performances by drifters and street performers, which are more or less commercial in nature.

More cities in Japan, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, are paradoxically consistent in terms of urban civilization. In Tokyo, the elegant and beautiful palace gardens and ancient masterpieces of construction, ancient temples and shrines and magnificent skyscrapers, secluded alleys of the hazy lanterns and the glaring neon of the bustling city constitute a stark contrast. Tokyo is a metropolis of antiquity, while at the same time preserving the oldest traditions. This paradoxical unanimity is also often expressed in Japanese street civilization and street play, such as the boys who street dance in the Imperial Palace Gyoen and the violinist who sells his art at the Kannon Temple in Asakusa.

Asakusa, just hearing the quaint name is enough to evoke a reverie. It is the most representative of the old traditional area in Tokyo. There is a clean stone road, a light street scene, and Kannon-ji Temple, the oldest temple in Tokyo. It is as busy as a temple fair every day, with dozens of stores selling a variety of Edo-style items lining the 300-meter-long stone path from the temple's front gate to the main hall. On winter mornings, the temple is crowded with visitors, and girls in kimono and clogs can be seen walking along the stone path and praying in front of the shrine.

At the front gate of the temple, a street vendor, a short, handsome, blonde, blue-eyed native with his own audio equipment, is playing the violin to the melody on the speakers. He played familiar but unknown Western music, temperament and demeanor as if in the concert hall ensemble concert, so that tourists do not know whether to give money, although he had a small bowl in front of the money. He didn't seem to care about the profit, but was just mesmerized by the music, standing under the old building of the Kannon Temple, playing one song after another, accompanied by tourists coming and going. At night in Asakusa, the Western charm and Western flavor are so harmonized that they flow on the ancient stone road and the strings of the street performers.

Street civilization is a new way of civilization to release oneself. It makes young people lose their joy in music, in movement, and learn about art. Street civilization has more, simply any art in the street can become street civilization. Modern street civilization in the 1970s lost development, concentrated in Europe and the United States, especially in the United States of America, street fashion hot time zone, presenting street music RAB RAP (rap music), rock and roll sound and so on. There are also street dance, skateboarding, roller skating. Along with the presentation of street clothes, graffiti and so on.

Today's street civilization breaks with tradition, dress exaggerated. Abstraction highlights the characteristics. These characteristics make the old people like and spread very quickly in all parts of the world to take root. In our Asia, first in Japan and South Korea, rap groups, then street dance groups, and then at the root of some rap groups will dance and complex difficult moves.

China was influenced by South Korea and Japan in the early 90's also presented hip-hop wind clouds, dance groups, especially in the 2000's almost every province has a street civilization. And a lot of people like street clothes, especially in Taiwan and Hong Kong can be said that street dance has become the first movement and the first dance is the first choice of Mr.. In the border street civilization has just been prevalent by the elderly like. In Hainan can be said to be carried out late. Although carried out for 2 years. But still immature it.

The composition of the street civilization:

Clothing

Oversized clothing can be regarded as the classic style of Hip-hop civilization. It is said that the origin of this way of wearing has a close relationship with the origin of Hip-Hop civilization. The original Hip-hop civilization is as early as in the 1970s by the United States before the blacks, Jews, Mexicans and other people of color to carry out. Prior to the United States, people of color economic situation is not as superior as white people, but small children are born more than white people, in order to make these children not too fast out of clothes, so often buy size larger T-shirt; plus Hip-Hop civilization sports taste heavy, loose clothing is much more convenient.

The severity is not the whole picture of Hip-Hop wear, the breakdown of the difference: skateboarding grievances like to wear skateboarding shoes, engaged in sports comparable to the arbitrary and also comparatively wearable, and with skateboarding brand of clothing, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, EXPEDITION, DC and so on are all skateboarding sporting goods in the name of brand-name; Street dance teenagers like to wear Nike, Adidas and other sports brands of complex style sneakers, showing a clean drag style, which Adidas shoes for the dancers playing floor initiatives like; in the street clothing brands, there are well-known ESDJ, TRIBAL, JOKER, FUBU, etc., brand-name apparel Tommy Hilfiger, POLO Sport, Nautica, OAKLEY and sports brands Nike, Adidas is also widely popular brand dancers.

Graffiti

Graffiti (graffiti) that is, street graffiti, rare in the United States in some residential areas of the alleyway or underground and subway stations. Graffiti is a form of street art in which teenagers use spray paint to paint on walls to express their ideas, thoughts or gangs to divide up territory; it originated in the late 1960s and has gradually become a form of street art.

Graffiti teens compete with each other in graffiti contests to see who has the most artwork and who has the biggest name. They put their names or pen names on prominent positions in all the public **** places they can to express their contempt for the prestige of adults. They play hide-and-seek with the police with paint-filled spray guns, often stolen.

They scrawled cryptic sentences on suburban walls, crude skeleton figures, faces in primitive mask colors, and obscene gestures in children's games. Graffiti works are visual rap and jazz, an original dedication to the visual arts. As an extension of the idea of massism, graffiti artists consume drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, murals, T-shirts, buttons, and flags in small quantities.

In 2001, fashion designers coincidentally took lessons from the Hip-Hop prevailing civilization, from clothes, dresses, high heels and handbags, can be found in color or colorful graffiti style works.

Street dance

Street dance, including mechanical dance, breakdancing, etc., from the United States street dance improvisation. These street dancers are predominantly black or Mexican, and most of the popular street dance originated in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Some black or Mexican children dance on the street all day long for fun, constituting a variety of factions, which naturally carry out different characteristics on the dance they dance.

Street dance belongs to the strong dance, dynamic, initiative amplitude, threshold dancers physical fitness. Like a one-handed handstand, forward roll, micro-windmill turn, back spin and other initiatives, belonging to the high coefficient of difficulty play, street dance teenagers must adhere to enough brawn support, as well as have a strong will and courage.

Shenzhen, some shrewd businessmen borrow "street dance" to get rich, in a sense, brought the prosperity of street dance. Some dance schools and fitness centers created a street dance classes, business is very hot. Shopping malls in the promotion of goods or held to celebrate the event, but also often asked the street dance play cheer, rendering the atmosphere.

Hip-Hop DJ

In 1967, a Jamaican immigrant in the United States, New York, the earliest of the two turntables and mixers placed together, the first "brush record" (scratch) initiative, attracting more people in the street to enjoy. DJs, as operators of turntables, have since become the face of popular civilization. Of course, if you can only play CDs is not enough, you have to have a considerable sense of pitch and beat, in order to be able to two different songs beautifully remixed; a higher method is scratch, also known as scratch records, to create sharp sound effects. DJs have been popular in foreign countries for more than 20 years, since becoming a special civilization, and also held a number of large and small international competitions, including the most credible competition, called "DMC".

raper

raper (MC) refers to the party in charge of driving the atmosphere (master of cerem ony). A good M C should be able to drive the mood of the crowd, speak to the crowd, create a beat with the human voice and simulate the sound of the machine to retrieve the sound such as drums or s cratch, etc., so it evolved into R ap and other rap methods. M C is not just a player, but also a H ip-H op civilization of the message conveyor function, a distinctive group color M C, more can drive action Zen, music and clothing prevalence, this point can also be so many black singers endorsement of clothing brands peep one two.

Stunt bike

Nowadays, many old people do not just take the bicycle as a means of transportation to school or work, for some people, the word B boy or B M boy is not at all rusty.

The correct name for B-boy is B MX, the full name is BICYCLE MOTOCROSS (Bicycle Motocross). It is a cyclocross sport that died out in the mid to early 70's in the U.S. In the mid 80's B MX started to be taken to the mountains and played with more tricks, higher jumps and more comfort than skateboarding. It has hundreds of initiatives, the most fundamental of which is the static equalization on the car, such as the rear wheel pointing jump, front wheel pointing jump, rubbing the wheel, set the car, floating, crossing the bridge and so on. The body of B MX is usually made of alloy, which can accept the impulse of falling from the center of several meters high. There are also many special features in the design, such as the handlebars that can be made to turn 360 degrees without being restricted by the brake line. The presentation of B MX in the movie "E- T" made it a representative of a prevalent civilization.

In Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, stunt bikes are divided into three kinds of competitions: U-tube, alpine race and park race. These competitions bring stunt cycling to the masses, while the center of the sport remains in the streets.

Skateboards

In the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, American surf music and movies guided the trend, and the first skateboards were introduced in 1959, as people sought the joys of ocean surfing in a variety of surfboard-like designs. in the late 1980s, skateboarding was reinvigorated in a self-help way with the introduction of laminated wooden obstacles and street-style venues. This new generation of skateboarders began to produce their own star athletes.

Skateboarding had a huge impact on the world's fashion civilization, with skaters listening to punk music and wearing earthy, broadcloth and vintage tennis shoes.

Inline skating

The idea of roller skating continued for about 300 years, culminating in a 17th-century Dutchman's attempt to nail wooden rollers under his shoes to enjoy the fun of skating. In 1979, an American ice hockey player found an old pair of inline skates and bought the design. From then on, inline skating became prevalent all over the world.

In 1984, the United States began to develop a variety of different uses of roller skates, R OLLERBLADE is constantly the international flywheel industry guide brand.

Scooter

The scooter (B icman) is a new sporty product after the skateboard, with a speed of up to 20 kilometers per hour, and this new product came from Japan.

Although we can see in the streets of Shenzhen in general the old man and women riding a scooter shopping, but that is not the representative of the street civilization, because the street civilization is the plaything of the old "cool" generation. Scooter is like a small bicycle, its front to take the structure of the bicycle, the lower part to take the structure of the skateboard, but it only two wheels. Assuming that you will be the following tricks, prove that you have reached the point of "out of the gods": two feet clamped to the rear wheel, two hands to grasp the front of the car, hard to lift the head, the front wheel as the center of gravity, in mid-air rotation of two circles, ferocious can be turned to three rounds; or perhaps clamped to the front wheel, the front wheel as the center of gravity, cocked the rear wheel rotation

[Edit this paragraph] street-drifting - street music, street musicians and beyond

"Do we not often draw an equivalence between street performers and ragged, nasty, blind beggars?" How do you respond to such a follow-up question? I am sure a few will give a definite answer. The reason is very complicated, in our claim that five thousand years of civilization in the country, street art and its artists to no have made people heartfelt appreciation - pre-Qin's singer Han E can make the "sound of the beams, three days", but because of begging along the streets and can not win the people of the Yongmen Respect; Song Dynasty capital city in the hook bar tile house in the singer and the road "playing wild ho" is an important traditional music of our country's payload, but only in the history, anecdotes can be found in some objective portrayal; before the bondage, Hua Yanjun's "two springs reflecting the moon," "listen to the pine," and other famous songs have been with him for many years, until the bondage was only after the knowledge of the musical "Bole" recordings organized, not to be extinct ...... All of these clarifications, China's history has presented a large number of "street artists", but as long as the majority of the lucky ones to remain famous in history.

The history of Eastern civilization has also presented a small number of street musicians nature of the drifting artists. From the material, we can see that the nature of the European medieval drifters and their musical activities are similar to the content and methods of street musicians. Those free wandering artists, no one knows where they came from and where they wandered, they roamed around in France, England, Germania and Italy, playing their music in the official and court, and sowing the seeds for the development of art music in Europe. However, these wandering artists, who came from a poor background and had no fixed place of residence, were not recognized by the Church, which was the "official" beforehand. As a result, little has been written about them in history.

In the early Middle Ages and modern times, these wandering artists were often referred to as minstrels (Minstrel) or Jongleur (Jongleur), and as they expanded in size and influence, but also due to the improvement of the socio-historical environment and the development of the wandering artists gradually into the writings of literary scholars and historians, so that we understand the situation of some of the minstrels and Jongleur, the music historian Paul Langlois. The music historian Paul Lang in his book Music in Eastern Civilization has some comparatively detailed elaboration. He recounts that the origins of the troubadours go back to Roman times, and that their literary knowledge and musical talents provide a glimpse of the remaining traces of modern popular theater staging and other festivals. Troubadours were practically indispensable throughout the Middle Ages in Europe.

Even in the development of Oriental art music, which is familiar today, there are many shadows attached to street music. For example, the pioneering classical music Haydn's music directly benefited from his farmer-like experience, from the countryside and the official, and even on the street, he obtained a lot of musical nourishment, Haydn often used the official tone of the official as the material of his own creation, including German, Bohemian, Croatian, Hungarian, and gypsy tunes. These musical materials are his early life experience accumulated up. Beforehand, Haydn often more with a person in the countryside, the official tour, sometimes divided into the official music to obtain the material and improvisation experience, he often participate in the street, the square artists play. This way not only let Haydn closer to his life, his character, and from which he made a rich source of music.

From this point of view, the existence of street music as a form of musical activity is not unique to a certain country or society, nor is it a civilized scene presented only in ancient times, it is in fact a continuation of the civilized tradition that exists universally.

But the ancients precisely neglected this civilization scene, so that the music scholars in the United States, Dr. Luo Qin engaged in this area of research, the face of a barren - not only in the international reference materials can not be found in the United States is unfortunate even a citation of the text are not available.

In absolute terms, the reader is lucky. We see the latest effect of this category tomorrow: Dr. Luo Qin after nearly eight years of exotic wind end effect - his first street music seminar monograph "street music: a microcosm of American society and civilization" (People's Music Publishing House, November 2001) has been published, the book is also the first international attention to street The book is also the first international monograph focusing on street art. The book selected dozens of representative American street music singing situation, to music anthropology narrative method of contemporary American civilization to stop the depiction and perspective, and with more than one hundred and twenty pictures of the author of the street music scene shooting, narrative, text and pictures of each other, and monotonous academic language in the relaxed text and pictures in the statement. Considering the level of music knowledge of the general readers, the author has deliberately inserted many "narrator"-style short essays into the article's narrative wherever the terminology and nouns are presented to add to the readers' accumulation of music knowledge and to assist in the understanding of the original purpose of the article. In order to strengthen the reader's sense of scene and understanding, the author will also collect the street musicians singing the sound of noise sound selected 15 songs, pressed into a CD attached to the back of the book, for readers to synchronize listening to enjoy, so that the book to reach the text, pictures, sound and lush, knowledge, academic, interest and the publication of the effect.

[Edit Paragraph]Street Basketball

hot sauce (street-ball) originated in the United States, the competition does not need to stop in the orthodox basketball court, in the city plaza or the street side of the open area of half a basketball court size of the flat hard ground, set up a basketball rack, you can stop the competition. In recent years, three basketball into our country, in some large and medium-sized cities have stopped a number of competitions, very popular with people.

Speaking of street basketball civilization, can not be mentioned is the New York Manhattan district of West 4th Street and Harlem Rucker Park. in these two regions cultivated a lot of street basketball heroes and myths. Goat (Earl Manigault) is one of the legends, he can casually take down the top of the rim 25 cents in coins, as well as that fast dribbling and cutting, so that opponents can not be defended, the height of as little as 6 feet 2 (188) he can casually have a height of 7 feet 2 (218) of the NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar defeated, and from now on the goat (Earl Manigault) is known to people. Earl Manigault has been called "the greatest player who never played in the NBA". However, due to the influence of mob power and drugs on the streets of the United States, many street players, even if they have good strength can not participate in the NBA league, so they can only be in the streets to complete their basketball career.

For this reason, street basketball has been passed down from generation to generation, and each street player has his own unique style and method to win the audience's approval and respect. Hot Sauce is perhaps the most popular street player in the 21st century, because he invented many New Tricks (new style), making street basketball more appreciated and entertaining. If you can see him play you will really understand that street basketball is not just a sport, but an art, so that you are in the middle of the street and feel the shock of the ball.

"Street Basketball" is based on HipHop street basketball. Throwing away all kinds of cumbersome rules, everyone leaves the streets. In the streets and alleys, following the beat of HIPHOP, we come together to enjoy the fun of free basketball.