countercultureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From counter- +‎ culture.

名詞

counterculture (複数形 countercultures)

1. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture.
   • 1997, Thomas Carr Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism‎^[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:

     The counterculture has long since outlived the enthusiasm of its original participants and become a more or less permanent part of the American scene, a symbolic and musical language for the endless cycles of rebellion and transgression that make up so much of our mass culture.

Further reading

• counterculture on Wikipedia.