NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Urban culture

Urban culture is the culture of cities. Cities all over the world, past and present, have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable rural areas. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... Look up city, City in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sign in a rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Qichun, a rural town in Hubei province, China An artists rendering of an aerial view of the Maryland countryside: Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank, 1918-1986), Aerial Series: Ploughed Fields, Maryland, 1974, acrylic and mixed materials on apertured double canvas, 52...

In the US and UK, "urban" is often used as a euphemism to describe hip hop culture or subsets of black culture; being these defined groups as a type of urban tribe. Hence names for cultural artifacts like urban music could be seen as a new term for "Race music". It can also refer to the greater availability of cultural resources (such as art, theatre, events, etc) as compared to suburban or rural areas. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener; or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ... Hip hop is a subculture, which is said to have begun with the work of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaattaa. ... In the United States, African American culture or Black culture includes the various cultural traditions of African American communities. ... An urban tribe is a subculture that originates and it develops in an urban ambient. ... Urban is in or having to do with cities, as distinct from rural areas. ... African American music (also called black music, formerly known as race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States. ...

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Categories: Articles to be expanded since January 2007 | All articles to be expanded | Subcultures | City | Culture stubs In sociology and, later, criminology, the Chicago School (sometimes described as the Ecological School) refers to the first major body of works emerging during the 1920s and 1930s specialising in urban sociology, and the research into the urban environment by combining theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, now applied elsewhere. ... There are several Chicago schools, a name derived from programs and departments at the University of Chicago and not the city of Chicago itself. ... Look up city, City in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Futurism was a 20th century art movement. ... For other uses, see Gang (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Graffiti (disambiguation). ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Urbanism is the study of cities - their geographic, economic, political, social and cultural environment, and the imprint of all these forces on the built environment. ... Broadly, Urban Economics is the economic study of urban areas. ... Urban sociology is the sociological study of the various statistics among the population in cities. ... An urban tribe is a subculture that originates and it develops in an urban ambient. ... The city of Bristol in the UK has spawned various musicians and artists, and is typified by its Urban Culture. ...

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