The German girls have hit again!!! A very interesting journey into the undiscovered mysterious disquieting Youth Universe!!!

The things they have found out are true for Germany but what do we know about Youth Culture in the other European countries? Mmmm... this might be the subject of a new Comenius project...

Indie is alternative rock that exists in the independent underground music scene. In the United Kingdom, Indie music charts have been compiled since the early 1980´s. Some Indie rock bands in the 80´s were for example Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, The Pixies or R.E.M.

Typical instruments are guitar, bass, drums and synthesizers.
Today Indie is not only a very popular music scene, it is also a temporary fashion.

LOOK :

• skinny jeans
• Converse/ Vans shoes
• leather jackets
• Palestinian scarves
• cross shoulder bags
• band T-shirts

MUSIC:

Indie can be divided into “Alternative Rock”, “Britpop” and “Indietronica”. Some important artists are:

• Arctic Monkeys
• The Kooks
• Hot Chip
• MGMT
• The Killers

Emo is a genre of music that originated from ‘hardcore punk’ and later adopted ‘pop punk’ influences when it became mainstream in the US.

Music:
It can be divided into “Screamo”, “Emocore” and “Deathcore”. Some important artists are:
• Fall Out Boy
• My Chemical Romance
• Panic at the Disco
• Paramore

Look:
Emos often wear dark clothes, “Chucks” or skatershoes. They also have some piercings, tight jeans, black hair and they wear their fringe in a typical way. Emos prefer T-shirts with photos of their favourite bands on it.

Behaviour:
They are often sad and melancholic, boys and girls show their feelings to the others of their group.

Look
Skaters often wear baggy or tight pants, “basecaps” and skater-shoes. Favourite fashion labels are Volcom, Emerica, Vans, Carhartt and Billabong. Of course most of them like to do skateboarding.

Music
Hard-Core, Hip-Hop, Punk
Some of the most important artists are:
• System of a down
• Sammy Deluxe
• Papa Roach
• Arctic Monkeys

Reggae is a type of music from Jamaica.

Misconceptions about the Reggae are, for example, the consumption of weed or other drugs.

Music:

• Bob Marley
• Seed
• Ziggy Marley (oldest son of Bob Marley)
• Jamaram

Look:

• Baggy trousers but rarely jeans
• Dreadlocks
• Caps
• Summer: Flip Flops
• Winter: Vegetarian shoes
  

Gothics are people who wear only black and blood red clothes. They often want to look like a vampire or a dead person. Their face is made up white with black and red eyes and lips. Mostly their jackets are long dark coats. Often they wear clothes which look as if they were from the Middle Ages. Their nails are black, too. They are often pierced and look very dark and scary. For people who never speak with a gothic he/she looks like a bad person. Most of the people say, “Look there is a boy or a girl who prays to Satan.” But this isn’t true, they only look like that, but lots of them are religious. Their music is Gothic Rock (Nightwish, Evanescence) and Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Children of Boredom).

Clothing:
Black and Red (sometimes white)

Look:
like a vampire; white face black eyes and black or red

Music:
Gothic, Heavy Metal, Trash Metal and Dark Wave

Character:
The people are also really nice, they look only very evil.

Punks wear old clothes, an expensive outfit is not important for them. They prefer sweatshirts with the name of their favourite band and wear the sign of anarchy. They have coloured hair and are against the law and rules. Often you can see them with a bottle of beer in their hands. Many Punks have dogs. Punks listen to aggressive music, they listen to Punk- rock and Ska Punk.

(The real Punks are beggars) Their favourite place in Augsburg is “Rockfabrik”.

Players are normally male, (the female version is called “chicse”) who wear eye-catching jewellery, tight jeans, and tight t-shirts. They spend a lot of time and money styling their hair and they often have got a lip piercing. Their favourite music is R`n’B and Hip-Hop.