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Collecting very obscure 80s New Wave music is one of my hobbies!
Nice, I always thought your posts here were cool. I have a large collection of "obscure" records, many of which are punk/postpunk/wave/power pop.
There is no such thing as a "hipster" - the definitions provided always say more about the person spouting the definition than anything external. You can define literally every word in the English language with a sentence or two (in a Dictionary), yet I've never seen a concise definition of "hipster" in 2014. It's always pages long with pictures, videos, and conflicting bullet points or it's simply and easily discounted.
If you're talking about the kind of folks you see in Williamsburg, the largest southern enclave is Austin by a mile. Asheville and Fayetteville sort of qualify. Large cities always have populations of the people I'm assuming the OP is talking about, so Atlanta (for example) probably has more than anywhere else in the south, even if the % isn't as high.
Back in the day "new wave" was a dirty word(s) for punks - it meant selling out, being weak, unchallenging, etc. Looking back, there's a ton of overlap and the concerns of the time seem trivial next to good songs, studio sound, and so on.
if you were to designate counter-cultural young people into hippies or hipsters (no dual diagnoses) then Knoxville has more histers than Asheville, probably by % and certainly by absolute numbers.
You could say Knoxville has more hipsters by % than Nashville, but only because nashville has metro government and its population includes the suburbs. For an absolute number, Nashville clearly has more. I tend to think Nashvile will have more hipsters than Atlanta, even. Nashville is becoming an "it city" for the younger crowd - whatever that means. East Nashville is very hipster.
Not that there aren't hipsters in Atlanta but I think of the young ATL vibe as Yuppies, Bubbies and Club Kids.
Nice, I always thought your posts here were cool. I have a large collection of "obscure" records, many of which are punk/postpunk/wave/power pop.
There is no such thing as a "hipster" - the definitions provided always say more about the person spouting the definition than anything external. You can define literally every word in the English language with a sentence or two (in a Dictionary), yet I've never seen a concise definition of "hipster" in 2014. It's always pages long with pictures, videos, and conflicting bullet points or it's simply and easily discounted.
If you're talking about the kind of folks you see in Williamsburg, the largest southern enclave is Austin by a mile. Asheville and Fayetteville sort of qualify. Large cities always have populations of the people I'm assuming the OP is talking about, so Atlanta (for example) probably has more than anywhere else in the south, even if the % isn't as high.
Yes, I agree that "hipster" as they can fall into a varied collection of a few prevailing types or personas. Madison has many specific neighborhoods that could be defined that way, including the Willy Street area on the side of the city I live in.
If you want a nice source for 80s New Wave I would recommend the Radio IO 80s New Wave station found on the Tune In App.
I can't stand hipsters period and they easily ruin the underrated character of any community. Just look what they did to Northwest Arkansas. It used to have that old fashioned American working class vibe, but now the hipsters took it away.
Definitely Durham, Carrboro, and Asheville in NC. Chapel Hill and Raleigh are more on the preppy/trendy side of the spectrum than hippie-ish.
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