26Chap-Hop
Chap-Hop is a music genre originating from England that mixes the hip hop genre with elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures and stereotypical English obsessions such as cricket, tea, and the weather.
27. The Incroyables and Merveilleuses were aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution who created a macabre and decadent subculture and “greeted one another with violent movements of the head as if in decapitation.”
28. The Stilyagi (Style-hunters) was a Soviet counterculture movement of the '40s-'60s obsessed with swing and rock-n-roll, snappy foreign clothing, and making musical recordings with old x-ray films.
29. The early hip hop and punk scenes were heavily intertwined as hip hop was a counterculture based on rejecting disco and punk was a scene about rejecting conventional rock at the time.
30. La Sape is a counterculture movement in the Congo where the adherents wear tailored high-end suits in order to resist their country's sociopolitical climate. These men embody the elegance and style of colonial predecessor dandies and will go out of their way to buy expensive clothing even if it means half-starvation during the month.
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31Swingjugend
Swingjugend (wing Youth) was an underground counter-culture in Nazi Germany comprised of youth who loved jazz and swing. They gathered in secret dance halls and opposed the Hitler Youth.
32. Several schools in Utah banned students from wearing the phrases “Drug Free” and “Stay sober” due to a violent straight edge subculture.
33. There is a youth subculture in Ireland called the Dublin Pony Kids. These boys and girls camp with their horses in front yards or on city wasteland.
34. Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary, or spiritual pursuits. In this context, Bohemians may or may not be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds.
35. There is a subculture called G0y, whose adepts identify themselves as men who have sex with men, but not as homosexuals or bisexuals. In such relationships, men consider hugging, kissing, mutual masturbation, and fellatio as acceptable. Anal sex is forbidden as it is seen as gay.
