What is underground?

The term "underground" at least once heard almost every person. Many intuitively understand that the Adea's prefix indicates that this is something opposite, different from the generally accepted. Is it really, and that in reality means the word "underground"?

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The origin of the word underground

The implination of the underground is the English-American "roots" - underground. The word is formed by the merger of two concepts: "Under" (translated as "under", "below") and "Ground" (means "earth", "floor", "platform"). The term characterizes the directions in art (whether music, painting or, for example, literature), which go into incision with generally accepted, mass culture. Similar flows are a kind of antipode mainstream.

That. The underground culture combined the directions that were prohibited, possibly obscene, contain protest, as well as violations of the generally accepted morality and norms, therefore exist in the "underground". AndGound Products Directions are designed for a special circle of consumers who deliberately allocated themselves from the bulk.

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Features of the Underground Culture

The main features of this type of art:

• The presence of deliberately demonstrative pulp, brutality, asocialism.
• Neglecting traditional moral and ethical and religious and moral standards.
• Increased interest in various manifestations of deviant (deviating from generally accepted norms) of behavior.

The distinctive feature of the underground is a gap with a generally accepted ideology, refusal to dominate the society of values \u200b\u200band norms, ignoring restrictions and prohibitions.

The most bright and sharply the underground flow is manifested in the literature (works of Dostoevsky, Mogilner, Savitsky, Zverev, etc.) and music. It includes some directions of rock culture - grunge, metal (extreme and avant-garde), hip-hop (Ji Funk and Gangsta-Rap). The underground culture in cinema found reflection in the "black humor" tapes.

The term underground characterizes the position of one or another work in the context of its time and era.