Subculture and popular performace in relation to Bjork

                         Subculture and popular performace in relation to Bjork

        According to the text entitled Popular culture by Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, subcultures can respond to situations/events that they are not completley satisfied with. For example, " The post industrial landscape of newyork city and the depletion of social services in the 1970's, coupled with structural inequalitiesexperienced by African American and Hispanic communities within urban environs created context of dwindling low-income housing, a trickle of meaningless jobs for young inner-city residents, hip hop style is black urban renewal; In breif Rose establishes a relationship between culture and traditionally economic/material bases renewal"( 351, Guins and Cruz) This quotaion explains how the hiop hop clothing style was produced from the economic difficulties experienced by the African American and Hispanic communities. The hip hop clothing style was looked at as a way of renewal. The clothing style then developed a subculture of people who soley wore hip hop clothing. A subculture is a culture that has been created from another culture.The hip hop clothing style has also blended with the punk rock clothing style and has created another subculture.Hip hop and rock have been blended musically and since it has been blended together in music it created a new musical Genre. For example, when the musical groups called Aerosmith and Run DMC created the song "Walk this way" it created a new musical Genre of Rock and Rap combined.

                        



      The musical artist called  Bjork created a subculture by blending the musical styles of dance and rock together. Her music contains dance beats along with typical rock chords and they create a unique sound when played collectively. Bjork was born on november 21 1965 in iceland. She began her career in music when she was only 11 years old. Throughout her life she blended the forms of music that were in the genres of rock, electronic, jazz, classical, folk, and African beats.When she became familar with those genres she  combined all of those generes she created a subculture of her own. I consider Bjork to be a bizarre musical artist because of the combinations of musical genres which are displayed in her music and also the way she dresses, perfoms, and conducts her music videos.Many people compare her sense of style to Lady GAGA, but i find her style to be a bit less foward and extreme then Lady GAGA's sense of style. Bjork's style contains originality and thought. It is not a replication of Lady GAGA's in any shape or form eventhough her musical style is compared to her's quite frequently.The  music videos she creates consists of bizarre themes and are far from " normal". some of her most famous songs are called " Army of me" and " All is full of love"  They are also the most bizarre videos. Here is a link to the video called Army of me :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyEJxzQM24Q&feature=related