Thursday, October 23, 2014

Choose Your Own Culture #6

Youth Subculture: Graffiti
-Any type of writing on a wall, as well as drawn images.
-Urban Graffiti is made normally with spray cans
-Started in New York in the late 1960's on subway trains
-Tagging is when you put your name on trains so that it gets around
-Style wars of graffiti between artist happened in the 1970's
-Most graffiti is actually not gang related
-The 1970's were known as the golden age for graffiti, but for police it was a problem that was hard to control.
-Graffiti was away to show creativity
- Heightened security in the 1980's made graffiti die down a little
- Graffiti is considered one of the four elements of hip hop
-Major part of urban environment
Graffiti by Done and Benz

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