Polish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Polish term or phrase:sznyt „bażantów”
Teatry grały przeważnie sztuki z demoludów, w kinach był nędzny repertuar, można było malować w zasadzie to, co się chciało, ale wystawiać już nie. Więc jedynie co tylko nam pozostawało, to nauczyć się sznytu „bażantów”. Byłem dużo wcześniej wprowadzony w ten styl i to ja wprowadziłem XXX do naszego grona.
Mods: The word Mod is probably a contraction of 'modernist'. Modernists were a late 'fifties English phenomenon, a group of highly fashionable young males, given to handmade suits and shirts with stiff white collars, who hung out at clubs like Studio 51 and The Flamingo. Their musical taste was originally modern jazz (a strong clue to the origin of the name) but gradually shifted towards the jazzier forms of R'n'B... .
A-Z of Street Cred by Campbell Rawkins:
Beatniks: Originally they were just 'beats'. Who first used that term is not known, but it referred to the post-war bohemians in New York, specifically poets like Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso and writers like Jack Kerouac plus any number of bearded types who lived in 'pads', smoked 'tea' and 'dug' jazz. The word spread (via much cross-country car and Greyhound bus travelling to San Francisko and later international jaunts to London, Paris and Tangier) and by the late 'fifties' characters muttering 'crazy' were found all over the world.
In England, they were originally known simply as 'bums' but as the American influence prevailed, they too became 'beats' and then 'beatniks'. Not surprisingly, the English variety was just a trifle staid and parochial. There were other differences as well. English beatniks had a fondness for duffel coats and trad jazz, they also had their own tribal rites, notably the Aldermaston March and the annual migration to St Ives. For all that, they were by the British standard of the time, radical and original. Like everything else, there has been a recent beatnik revival but it seems to have been l
Garish images of Elvis, voluptuous pin-up girls, jungle fantasies and religious scenes are common themes in black velvet paintings, a kitsch tradition that gained popularity from the 1950s to the 1970s. - http://www.acfnewsource.org/art/black_velvet.html
geopiet Native speaker of: Polish PRO pts in category: 12
Explanation: "Hey you know there's a lot of talk going around about this hip and hep jive. Lots of people are going around saying "hip." Lots of squares are coming out with "hep." Well the hipster is here to inform you what the jive is all about."
"The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes. Early hipsters were generally white youths adopting many of the ways of urban blacks of the time, but later hipsters often copied the early ones without knowing the origins of the culture." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)
Depending on what era you're talking about, you could try hipster. :)
Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter.
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