What is the Hipster Culture Really All About? What word first pops into your head when you first hear the word “hipster”? Some think high top converse, coffee drinker, others think cigarette, beanie wearing, politics lover. No matter what word we think of it always comes back to the millennial version of a hipster. No one really thinks into how this culture started and the background of it all. They first started in the 1940’s when the label was a “beatnik” hipster instead of the known “millennial” hipster. The beatniks were the type of people who say “skiddly-doo-doo-wop” and snap their fingers instead of clap. All starting with Harry Gibson and the jazz era making this trend of culture popular. Privileged white male musicians started slowly
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Over time with generations passing, this long, black beard, beret wearing look started to fade out within the hipster community. The effect of this created what we know of hipsters today, the millennial version of the 1940’s jazz musicians. There was a big jump within this change, not just style wise, but practically the all around view on the hipster. You are now considered a hipster if you wear beanies, high top converse, Ray Bans, drink an excessive amount of coffee and hang out in a beanery, the list is infinite with the look of a millennial hipster. Nowadays anyone can be a hipster, not just privileged white males. If you’re a female, Caucasian, African American, Asian, anything you could possibly name, you can be a hipster. But, you …show more content…
when it originated?”
There is a distinct difference between the “Beatnik Hipster” and the “Millennial Hipster”. According to LanguageTrainers.com, Harlem Jazz clubs from the 1940’s coined the “hipster” term, but Harry Gibson, jazz pianist, was the one we can thank for making it popular. The basic definition of a 1940 hipster was the act of being a white musician in a mainly black club, only privileged white Americans though, there were no black hipsters. The website states that “the phrase was considered an act of rebellion, hipster equals rebel” In today’s culture hipster is practically the opposite of what it used to mean. It is used to describe someone who wears vintage flannels, beanies and Ray Ban prescribed glasses. We as millennials changed the view on the word hipster. The image of a jazz player has been erased and replaced by someone who keeps up with the latest trends. Anyone and everyone can be considered “hipster” in today’s society as opposed to the 40’s when it was only a select few.
“How did the styles in this culture
Over time with generations passing, this long, black beard, beret wearing look started to fade out within the hipster community. The effect of this created what we know of hipsters today, the millennial version of the 1940’s jazz musicians. There was a big jump within this change, not just style wise, but practically the all around view on the hipster. You are now considered a hipster if you wear beanies, high top converse, Ray Bans, drink an excessive amount of coffee and hang out in a beanery, the list is infinite with the look of a millennial hipster. Nowadays anyone can be a hipster, not just privileged white males. If you’re a female, Caucasian, African American, Asian, anything you could possibly name, you can be a hipster. But, you …show more content…
when it originated?”
There is a distinct difference between the “Beatnik Hipster” and the “Millennial Hipster”. According to LanguageTrainers.com, Harlem Jazz clubs from the 1940’s coined the “hipster” term, but Harry Gibson, jazz pianist, was the one we can thank for making it popular. The basic definition of a 1940 hipster was the act of being a white musician in a mainly black club, only privileged white Americans though, there were no black hipsters. The website states that “the phrase was considered an act of rebellion, hipster equals rebel” In today’s culture hipster is practically the opposite of what it used to mean. It is used to describe someone who wears vintage flannels, beanies and Ray Ban prescribed glasses. We as millennials changed the view on the word hipster. The image of a jazz player has been erased and replaced by someone who keeps up with the latest trends. Anyone and everyone can be considered “hipster” in today’s society as opposed to the 40’s when it was only a select few.
“How did the styles in this culture