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==History and Context== | ==History and Context== | ||
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The '''1940s hipster''' was a fan of jazz and bebop and the beatnik generation, | The '''1940s hipster''' was a fan of jazz and bebop and the beatnik generation, | ||
and adopted such musicians' lifestyle, almost as a philosophy, | and while not part of it per se, still adopted such musicians' lifestyle, almost as a philosophy, | ||
sometimes to the point of copying the identity. | sometimes to the point of copying the identity. | ||
While the details are not directly relevant to the modern hipster, there are parallels. | |||
The word '''hippie''' seems to come from the same origin (also via hippy), | The word '''hippie''' seems to come from the same origin (also via hippy), | ||
and was | and was used both positively and pejoratively at the time. | ||
The associations we today attach to ''hippies'' mostly come from the sixties and seventies. | The associations we today attach to ''hippies'' mostly come from the these later variants from the sixties and seventies. | ||
To oversimplify: they had similar attitudes towards drugs and free thinking and sex than the earlier variant, though for different reasons, and their music was different. | To oversimplify: they had similar attitudes towards drugs and free thinking and sex than the earlier variant, though for different reasons, and their music was different. | ||
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More recently: | More recently: | ||
'''Post-hippie''' - someone who believes in the same ideas, but without the trappings of previous times, nor a particular wish to | '''Post-hippie''' - someone who believes in the same ideas, but without the trappings of previous times, nor a particular wish to copy their aesthetics as-is. | ||
'''Neo-hippie''' - believes the these ideas and is more actively engaged - political, motivated, possibly activist. | '''Neo-hippie''' - believes the these ideas and is more actively engaged - political, motivated, possibly activist. | ||
Also comes in a fake aesthetics-only variant (...as everything | Also comes in a fake aesthetics-only variant (...as everything with positive social connotations eventually does) | ||
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==Modern hipster== | ==Modern hipster== | ||
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The modern hipster is a parallel to the 1940s hipster - passionate about what they like, connoisseurs, searching, experimental. Quirky, regularly off-beat. | The modern hipster is a parallel to the 1940s hipster - passionate about what they like, connoisseurs, searching, experimental. | ||
Quirky, regularly off-beat. | |||
Slightly indulgent perhaps, and not necessarily someone you would agree with, but who finds | Slightly indulgent perhaps, and not necessarily someone you would always agree with, | ||
but who finds inteeresting things, says interesting things, | |||
and whose tastes and searching attitude you can probably generally respect. | |||
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It seems intended to point at the people in this generation that took this same interested attitude to heart again, and ended up being the trendsetters rather than followers of this attitude. | It seems intended to point at the people in this generation that took this same interested attitude to heart again, and ended up being the trendsetters rather than followers of this attitude. | ||
...or sometimes or arguably people with beards and pretension before ''those'' became big. | |||
In some ways, hipster before it was cool. | In some ways, hipster before it was cool. | ||