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Current Youth Subcultures Aesthetic

Posted on:2012-07-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330374953718Subject:Aesthetics
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In the modern multi-cultural context, youth subculture is a unique cultural phenomenon which has a profound impact to the whole aesthetics culture and formation of social spirit. During the social transformation of Chinese economy and culture in rapid development,revealing the aesthetic thinking,value's unique connotation and causes of youth subculture in the new historical conditions, which helps to profoundly understand youth subculture and youth groups ,to provide support and reference for aesthetic research and aesthetic education, so as to richen the aesthetic halls Chinese nationality. Author will treat the whole of China as a youth subculture "Macro Text", by interpreting the text of youth subcultures to understand the characteristics and historical causes of the formation of "general style". The key task is to develop into a sort of youth subculture unique aesthetic thinking by analyzing the cultural phenomena of aesthetic character of youth sub-culture.This paper selects the catchword,indulged in beauty literature, non-mainstream picture photography, parkour sporting four current typical representative of the Chinese youth subculture, Explanation of the current youth subculture to pursue the individuality and cool feeling, exclusive, keen perceptual expression such prominent characteristics of style. And The author will demonstrate and prove the aesthetic thought and meaning of youth sub-culture in aesthetic dimension from three aspects: youth sub-cultures with distinctive characteristics of postmodernism, such as anti-authority, disruptive, popularization and diversification. It actively eliminates the impact of " postfigurative culture " through the subversion of existing leading values and aesthetic sense and the construction of speaking right which belongs to he young sub-cultural groups. Youth subculture in the eyes of contemporary concerns of life and individual experience, led to the generalization of youth sub-culture, and respect for the aesthetic pleasure of taste and experience, showing the enthusiasm of mass popular culture and "bad taste" popular culture , this boost them to form the resistance of ideological indoctrination and authority discipline. youth subculture map out the anxious love and thinking of life and social issues. But the vast majority of contemporary youth subculture stagnates in the "life concern" level, shows the reproduction of present chaotic state with no belief.The author also synthesizes the causes of youth sub-culture theory at home and abroad, from the angle of traditional education and concept's influence to the youth sub-culture,describes the formation of rebel consciousnesss of sub-cultureto the mainstream culture and historical cause of lacking innovation.
Keywords/Search Tags:youth sub-culture, aesthetic dimension, postmodern orientation, aesthetic generalization, focus on current
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