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- Title
American Graffiti: The Tradition of Illegal Public Name Writing in the United States.
- Authors
Stowers, Cory L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the significance of the American graffiti, the tradition of illegal public name writing in the U.S. It cites the engraved name of a Jewish soldier in Syria in 4000 BCE (Common Era) which was considered as an act of public name writing. It further notes that the lineage of different subcultures that were involved in illegal name writing movements in the country goes back at least 130 years. It stresses that not all of the threads can be associated to a single point of emergence, however, the phenomena developed simultaneously among various groups in many cases.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GRAFFITI; VANDALISM; HIP-hop culture; POPULAR culture; SOCIAL groups; JEWISH chronology; SUBCULTURES; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Words.Beats.Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
2151-0741
- Publication type
Article