Diciembre 2011
EDITORIAL Due to the constant development of the city, saw the necessity to have its own rhythm, it compass. Here born the urban culture, a way to follow an ideology, take a way of life, take a clear vision of life, and so create a series of tribes, according to the identity of each one of these, varies its ideology and its behavior, for example,
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Rappers
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While the trend of the punkeros is violent, the hippies are pacifist. In this magazine we want to present some of these subcultures, their thoughts, their likes and their ideologies, how to speak and be heard by the society. Also it discusses some topics of the interest for the people, such as movies, art forms and cultural events.
Others Cultures 9 Sport 11 Events Speaker Art Festival
Juan Guillermo García Joana Aguirre
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Rappers
The rappers, as well as the hippies, the Rastafarians, the punks, the skates, rockers, between another people with a cultural movement, or how it is called today an urban tribe. Occurs at the beginning of the 70s in the Afro-Americans communities to the neighborhoods of New York, Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. In the way to dress the rappers haven’t a style and dress defined currently. Because the they varies according to the epoch or the place, they wear bigger clothes of the common sport shirts and sweatshirts (influenced by the clothing designs of sports like basketball and baseball) with belts and cords, also they use to take hanging chains, to use sport shoes and hats. The colors of their clothes may vary by membership in an urban group in particular. The aesthetics "bling- bling" popularized specially by the rappers, it is based on the ostentation of the richness by means of jewels (in the beginning made in gold, but after the platinum was imposed), brand clothes, etc The hip hop culture is a whole universe for exploring, knowing a little about it will allow you to understand the behavior and the attitudes of their followers.
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Is a musical gender belonging to the rapper culture, is the union of four elements, the Mc (Master of Ceremony), DJ (Disc Jockey), accompanied by BBoying and the graffiti. Although women, white people and latin people have been much of gender scenes, until the 80’s, these groups do not begin to innovate, to distinguish their style, ultimately, to fill their success. Big exponents of this gender like Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Guru, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, T Pain, Usher, Hoists Cube, they converted at the Hip Hop in whole social phenomenon. The Hip hop has been growing and expanding effectively around the world and it also has expanded likewise with respect to their perception, it is for this reason that has wanted to give an ideal of conscience in the way to keep the Hip hop progressing but avoiding that disfigures itself of how it was created; this is the respect to hisorigins and ideal of intentions.
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The grafiti, is a way of expressing by means of drawings what the individuals feel in a society, is an expression related with the circumstances of the urban things, and has been given from the forbears. The art of taking the walls of a city as an enormous white fabric gathered strength at the end of the 60s, especially in the American cities of New York and Philadelphia. Currently the graffitis become a revelation, which stimulated by the need of expressing,
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of being recognized and even to leave particular trace of their existence, is a form of art in rapid development. Scoreboards and aerosols have been become in the materials of graffiti more commonly used. The graffiti can express social, political messages and of the whole gender of artistic expression. Exist different types of graffitis based on a scale of complexity that goes from the simplest form as " The Tag " passing for letters pomp, wild style, styles 3D, until to coming to the total abstraction of a work.
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With this, the first festival of graffiti realized in the city of MEDELLIN breaks with the stigmas of the graffiti to society and new spaces are generated in our city, this one has to be the starting point for many more festivals, conversations and murals. Every time with more quality and commitment for the graffiti of Medellin. Phalanx graffiti festival was a event realized this year for VIRA LATA with the support of Medekingz and don Hetor Crew, besides the sponsorship of the local paint mark Aero color, were counted with the participation of more than 30 artists, between places, national and international.
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B-boying, often called "breakdance", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed as part of hip-hop culture among African Americans and Latino youths in New York City. The dance consists of four primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. It is danced to both hiphop and other genres of music that are often remixed to prolong the musical breaks. The musical selection for b-boying is not restricted to hip-hop music as long as the tempo and beat pattern conditions are met. A person who practices this dance is called b boy, b girl, fly girl or breaker. Also called bboy/girl that follows this culture.
On November 26, Moscow hosted the final of this year breakdance competition, Red Bull BC One 2011, which eventually won the American ROXRITE.
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Others Cultures The punks are people with revolutionary ideas, anti-system, mostly believe in anarchy, an anarchy in which there is equality and freedom, are usually people with violent tendencies, easily distinguishable, brightly colored crests, leather jackets, rings in their ears, piercings, tattoos, spiked bracelets and combat boots, often wear black shirts and trousers, with a social theme. His music is characterized by its simplicity and rawness of the amplified sound, usually creating a loud noise or aggressive environment inherited from the garage rock.
This movement or urban culture emerged in San Francisco in the mid70s, were characterized by the music they listened to was the Californian rock either the psychedelic Grateful Dead or the electrical of The Doors. Their costumes or extravagant costumes were very strong colors like red, yellow, green, purple ... One of his ideals was having sex without shame or embarrassment, all the hippies were not, or thought the same, some were vegetarians, consumed drugs and
many others joined a Buddhist, young people who were part of this culture the vast majority belonged to middle class, but also left upper classes involving youth and women.
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Sports
Skateboarding is a sport that involves sliding on a table with wheels and turn to perform various tricks, many of them raising the floor slab and making figures and pirouettes with her in the air. It is related to surfing, street culture, with urban art. There are two types of skate: the Street or street style, and the Vert, practiced on vertical ramps.
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Events
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SPEAKER 2011 The festival speaker has become a major social commitment l, is characterized for a diversity gender and musical ideas. The category of hip hop presented fifty ideas, one of them is risky Mary Hellen with her expansive hip hop and direct hip hop of Diana Avella. The national cartel met, demonstrating that National music continues growing. The city have had a great success with this young event, the good behavior and a cool wave, have always been fine details of the audience to speaker which is composed mostly by young between 14 and 25 years old; precisely, The festival this year was enriched by participants from Bogotรก, Manizales, Ibague and countries who play local.
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Events ART FESTIVAL FOR YOUNG TO MEDELLIN The Festival in its first version, seeks to recognize the strengths and talents of the youth of the city is also the opportunity to generate a display case for those groups of artists who have not had much artistic projection productions and assemblies. The idea came up about through the initiative and coordination of the Corporation Tables also has the support of Comfenalco Antioquia, Medellin Chamber of Commerce, Franรงoise Alliance and the Piloto Public Library who joined this new young artistic idea of the city. More than 20 educational institutions, art groups, youth groups and corporations, will show the city, the various art-focused Theatre, Music, Dance and Arts, the Young Art Festival of Medellin.
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