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17 - Marcelle Lefineau "urban tribes" (Book)

For those who still like to take a book in their hands to flip through or dive eagerly reading, perhaps want to visit the pages "urban tribes. Clothing from a multicultural perspective ", the work of the fledgling author Marcelle Lefineau Argentina.

is not fiction or an essay or monograph, is a diachronic study that the author has resulted in pages, covering different periods as avant-garde styles, fashions, personalities, musical tastes.

This painstaking work, the historical context underpinning and framing each urban tribe, every minority rejections generates extravagant ones, identifying in others, and especially trying to make way for the cultural process of constant modernization and social ideology, tearing the prearranged system for the fees set in each period. Thus, in this tour are flippers, shipsters, beats, hippies, psychedelic, skinheads, heavys, punks, Rastafarians, hip hoppers, rappers, darks, industrial, gothic, with its sub-styles: medieval, Victorian, sick, etc. .. , ravers, or anime otaku, hackers, decorers, freaks, outsiders, metrosexuals, gossip girls, and variants of today.
These cultural, ideological and spiritual, are viable in the aesthetics, the arts, in the differentiation and clothing constructed from a creative, distinctive.

The young writer, designer clothing and big social observer, shows a gallery of "tribals" and started his story from the twenties to today. A journey that highlights the needs and feelings of Western culture, from the perspective of the great designers like Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, among others, the influential music in the styles of jazz, soul, rock, ska, reggae, funk, hip hop, heavy metal, disco, etc., celebrities, concerning all of them.

Finally, it is clear that the book has wonderful illustrations that undergo semantic paratextual the text, the words made-it-by the artist Luis Disanti chivilcoyano .

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