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木然:北美街头文化以及我们的生活

米兰•昆德拉在小说《慢》中写道:“慢的乐趣怎么失传了呢?古时候闲荡的人到哪儿去啦?民歌小调中的游手好闲的英雄,这些漫游各地磨坊,在露天过夜的流浪汉,都到哪儿去啦?”

“美国诞生在街头(America was born in the streets)”――这是好莱坞大片《纽约黑帮》的宣传词。

北美是一座梦想家的新大陆。有一句老话至今被人默默崇拜,这就是:街头没故事,城市也就没故事;街头没文化,城市也就没文化;街头没有时尚,城市也不会时尚到哪里去。

没有时间限制,不会禁烟,可以随意涂鸦,可以舞蹈,也可以唱歌的街头,是一座城市永远打开的窗口和永不谢幕的舞台。变幻的人流载着流行就像竞相盛放的鲜花,将这座城市的性格与风格、保守与开放、怪异与老土、自由与自闭展示得淋漓尽致。

如果说,流淌在我们血管里的血液代表着生命的话,那么,一座城市的生命,在于街头那些流淌着的人们。还有歌声。还有舞蹈。

服饰。涂鸦。街舞。唱白(MC)。以及Hip-Hop DJ――这是街头文化的主脉搏。

Hip-hop舞蹈者超大尺码的T恤,拿着滑板游荡街头的少年,穿着快走鞋在广场喷泉中穿插的中学生,还有如DVS、PTS、VOLCOM、EXPEDITION、 Nike、Adidas ESDJ、TRIBAL、JOKER、FUBU以及Tommy Hilfiger、POLO Sport、Nautica、OAKLEY等等的名牌,是这个城市的服饰。

发源于60年代,被称为涂鸦(graffiti)的玩艺儿是一种艺术。那些神秘色彩的句子,粗鲁的骷髅状的人像、带有原始面具色彩的面孔,以及孩子游戏中含有猥亵意味的姿势,是一座城市可视的爵士乐。

街舞起源于美国街头,舞者以黑人或是墨西哥人为主,他们不但有很强烈的表演欲望,而且我行我素,即兴而作。单手倒立、前滚翻、大风车转、背旋……街舞少年以足够的体力以及坚强的意志和勇气傲视权威。

唱白(MC)标准的名称是master of cerem ony。一位好的MC是街头舞台的统治者,他不但可以用人声制造节奏以及模仿机器所发出的声音,而且还能带动口头禅、音乐以及服装的流行。譬如Rap的诞生。

1967年,有位牙买加移民在美国纽约最早把两个唱盘及混音器摆在一起,独创“刷唱片”(scratch)的动作,吸引了很多人在街头欣赏。DJ作为播放唱机的操作员,从此成为流行文化的代言人。

我们生活在这样一个流行的社会,我们的城市永远不能缺少这五样元素,起码现在不能。

我们无法拒绝生活,如此我们也就无法远离街头,以及街头那股流动着的活力。

我们从遥远的东方来到这里,融入主流不仅是要去投票,或去五大银行上班。

假如你愿意,不妨尝试在某个阳光温暖的周末,从上城步向下城,在每个街头游荡。或许你不会唱,不会跳,不会激动与沉沦,但起码你会在阳光里打瞌睡,手捧一杯咖啡,或者呆呆地看着风将广场上的软包装纸合吹得翻滚作响,这何尝不是你该珍惜的生活呢?

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中国街头比这里好看多了
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Thanks. Grandpa! (or grandma maybe?) Back to one year ago, I probably would say the same thing. Now? I am tired of people like you; the way you spoke; the way you wrote. Don't you get it? Don't waste the resources here by posting nonsense here. In my opinion, you ruined my appetite on BBS. This iis one of a few messages I posted in the past two years, and I met a guy like you. Stay in your herd, have a nice job, be a good husband or wife, drink coffe in Starbucks, drive your Japanese car, suite up and pay off your mortgage. When you look out of your office window, try to look down. There are people sleeping on street. There are other life styles too. Off topic. Please forgive me, the author of the original message.
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最初由 Northeyrabbit 发布: Oops. We got a nerd here. I can imagine your face almost. A real offence is not a F word or alike on BBS. It is the attempt to devalue somebody's opinion by distracting poeple with irrelevant matters. I don't care what people think of me, especially you. How could you give me such a judgement just by a single word. Low life..... If you are the administrator here, kick me out. I don't like here anyway. Be the hypocrite yourself. Don't force others to be like you. By the way, what is your comment on the discussions going here? This is good. I appreciate your attitude right now. If you want to know my judgement, that was my judgement about the writing you had this time. The “low-life image” was not a judgement, it was a projection your speech made onto a reader’s mind, as I said, your F word using projected that image. Maybe you think the F word is a good word, which can raise your profile. I can sense it again from your second speech. You were trying to defend your preference in speaking F word. You preference won’t bother me. Simply, if you still insist this preference, I will not interrupt again. This is not judgement too, if you want to know. This is just a sense you made. However, what I believed before was that you won’t like to go with F word around. That was my judgement. That was why I cut into this and give you my opinion. I might be wrong. Second thing is I didn’t think you really understood the F word. That’s why I chimed in on you. The F word is not a regular word, it has specific meaning. You could have so many words to choose to describe the “right”, but you chose the F word; and from the context, there was nothing which would stimulate a regular person to use this word. You chose it and you didn’t feel embarrassing? I felt embarrassing. I am not the administrator, and I have no intention to force anyone to do anything. If you like that F word, you value it, go with it. I care only when I think you don’t know this word very well. If you know the word and you still choose to go with it, then it is your choice and I don’t care.
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Oops. We got a nerd here. I can imagine your face almost. A real offence is not a F word or alike on BBS. It is the attempt to devalue somebody's opinion by distracting poeple with irrelevant matters. I don't care what people think of me, especially you. How could you give me such a judgement just by a single word. Low life..... If you are the administrator here, kick me out. I don't like here anyway. Be the hypocrite yourself. Don't force others to be like you. By the way, what is your comment on the discussions going here?
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最初由 Northeyrabbit 发布: you are fucking right Aside from the mainstream thing, you are fucking right. I want to have a break too. I feel sorry for you. I cannot see your point by using the F word here, except a low-life image your speech has projected. Certainly, it is your choice to be a man you want, and I have no intention to prevent that. However, the F word is so irritating for people who are interested in this topic and it is such irrelevant to this topic. If you do really like to speak the F word and want to go around with it, why don’t you find someplace else people will value that? I don’t think people in this BBS would appreciate your using this word and I believe you don’t want to be viewed as a vulgarian, do you?
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Aside from the mainstream thing, you are fucking right. I want to have a break too.
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