Greasers were a youth subculture that originated in the 1950s among Teenagers in northeastern and southernUnited States. The music genre Rock n Roll, was also a major part of the culture and styles were influenced by singers like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Haley, and Richie Valens. The style and subculture then became popular among other types of people, as an expression of rebellion.

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1. 1.a cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture.

The emo culture continued to develop through the 90's and into the new millennium really kicking off around 2003 and reaching the height of its popularity to date. The word has been adopted by a whole generation of teenage music lovers for whom a melodramatic attitude and style of dress is just as important as musical taste. It's now seen as one of the more consumer-driven subcultures, and one of the most brand-obsessed.

Initially defined as a genre of music, nowadays the cultural phenomenon that is Emo is much more than that encompassing its own set of fashion, style, behavior, and perspectives on life within the definition. The music is also significantly different to what was once classed as emo. These changes/evolution obviously are the subject of debate and anger "yesterdays true" emos. At the end of the day its just a word that has horned its way into popular usage while shedding many of the qualities that originally defined it.

The name derived from “hip,” a term applied to theBeatsof the 1950s, such asAllen Ginsbergand Jack Kerouac, who were generally considered to be the precursors of hippies.

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Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_subculture

which actively sought a minority style, and interpreted it in accordance with minority values

The punk subculture emerged in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia in the mid-1970s. Exactly which region originated punk has long been a major controversy within the movement.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} Early punk had an abundance of antecedents and influences, and Jon Savage describes the subculture as a "bricolage" of almost every previous youth culture in the Western world since World War II, "stuck together with safety pins".^[8] Various musical, philosophical, political, literary and artistic movementsinfluenced the subculture.

In the late 1970s, the subculture began to diversify, which led to the proliferation of factions such as new wave, 2 Tone, pop punk, hardcore punk, No Wave, street punk and Oi!. Hardcore punk, street punk and Oi! sought to do away with the frivolities introduced in the later years of the original punk movement.^[9] The punk subculture influenced otherunderground music scenes such as alternative rock, indie music and crossover thrash.^[9] A new movement in the United States became visible in the early and mid-1990s that sought to revive the punk movement, doing away with some of the trappings of hardcore.

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leather jackets. jeans and boots. They rode around on motorcycles and listened to rock n roll

-Subversion to normalcy

- Often perceived as negative because they are criticizing how you live your life, critical of the dominant social postion

-Bring together like minded people to develop their own sense of identity

- Membership is often signaled through distinctive styles, clothing, hair, music, mannerisms and language

It contains elements of theology, ideology, mythology, and spirituality. Bohemianism is also a way of life and focuses on the individual and his or her impact on the world. The connection with mythology is that if a human being “jumps onto life’s pages in full color”, he or she will create legends similar to the heroes of ancient world mythologies.

hippy.... during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain.

Hippies felt alienated from middle-class society, which they saw as dominated by materialism and repression, and they developed their own distinctive lifestyle. They favoured long hair and casual, often unconventional, dress, sometimes in “psychedelic” colours. Many males grew beards, and both men and women wore sandals and beads. Long, flowing granny dresses were popular with women, and rimless granny glasses with both men and women. Hippies commonly took up communal or cooperative living arrangements, and they often adopted vegetarian diets based on unprocessed foods and practiced holistic medicine.

Golden years: 1993-96

Music: Instrumental club music driven by high-tempo breakbeats and complex rhythms.

The look: Camouflage, Moschino jeans, Caterpillar boots

Deadly rivals: Not exactly deadly ­rivals, but fans of house music were held in contempt by some Junglists.

Public profile: Low in the UK these days – jungle music was a victim of the shifting sands of dance culture – but beginning to rise and mutate ­internationally.

Taken from: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/25/emo-pop-tribes-mods-punks

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Dr Micheal Van Beinum, a child psychiatrist said, for some young people with mental health problems, a goth sub-culture may be attractive, as it may allow them to find a community within which it may be easier for their distress to be understood.