Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has become a hot commodity around the world. A majority of the people succumbed to this growing social trend are adolescents ranging from teenagers to young adults. The desire to fulfill unconscious instinct is a strong part of what drives ravers to continually attend events, usually repeating attendance at select venues, following their favorite DJs, using the popular drugs of choice, and utilizing the occasions as symbolic resistance to the parental generation. Some people go so far as to spending thousands of dollars annually to indulge in rave culture. There are also many people who give themselves alternate personas when attending raves. Rave spectators create their personal rave identities in which they self-identify with for appearing in EDM society.
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Surfboard design, is a topic that is always hotly debated amongst the surf community. These designs have a profound effect on the boards use, or the rider’s style. Through ethnographic research it can be seen that surfboard design, when analyzed through psychoanalysis, has a major effect on the surfers style. Not just through ability but through the psychological nature of repression. This miniature ethnography interviewed four long island based surfers; Bob, Ken, Shane, and myself. These surfers all vary in age, from age 20 to age 50. I chose these four surfers because they would be easy to gain access too. I was forced to use emails to conduct my interviews, although not the best method it was the only one available to me at this time. These individuals each represent different areas of surf culture. They all ride different styles and I wanted to gain knowledge of the entire culture not just my own niche. I wanted to determine if surf style was changed due to board design and if riding style changed due to a person’s mood. Each individual was asked how many surfboards they own as well as the lengths of each board. After these questions they were asked to explain their style when using each board and also if their style changes depending on their board. These questions helped me to further my psychoanalysis of surfboard design and rider style.
For my ethnography, I hoped to dig deeper into finding some sort of definition of a hipster, but through these interviews and observations, I found out that there is and never will be a true understand of what a hipster is. The problem to defining a hipster is that no “authentic” hipster would ever admit that they are, in fact, a hipster. The term hipster has now become such a derogatory term that those who are coined a hipster are automatically assumed a “fake”. Despite this fact, within my observations and interviews, I focused on the fashions and styles that might characterize a hipster and notice any comparisons between people in both Union Square and Williamsburg. For this ethnography, I visited two common sites known for their trendy and unique shops and people: Union Square Park and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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