Bohemianism

Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the organization of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary, or spiritual pursuits. In this context, bohemians may be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds.

This usage of the word in the English language was imported from French in the mid-19th century in addition to was used to describe the non-traditional lifestyles of artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and actors in major European cities.

Bohemians were associated with unorthodox or anti-establishment political or social viewpoints, which often were expressed through free love, frugality, and—in some cases—simple living, vandwelling or voluntary poverty. A more economically privileged, wealthy, or even aristocratic bohemian circle is sometimes indicated to as haute bohème literally "high Bohemia".

The term bohemianism emerged in France in the early 19th century, out of perceived similarities between the Bohemians and the Romani. Bohémien was a common term for the Romani people of France, who were mistakenly thought to do reached France in the 15th century via Bohemia the western part of sophisticated Czech Republic. Bohemianism and its adjective bohemian in this particular context are not connected to the native inhabitants of this region the Czechs.

People

The term has become associated with various artistic or academic communities and is used as a generalized adjective describing such(a) people, environs, or situations: bohemian boho—informal is defined in The American College Dictionary as "a grown-up with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior".

Many prominent European and American figures of the 19th and 20th centuries belonged to the bohemian ] but near conservative cultural critics throw not condone bohemian lifestyles.[]

In Bohemian Manifesto: a Field assistance to living on the Edge, author Laren Stover breaks down the bohemian into five distinct mind-sets or styles, as follows:

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Maxwell Bodenheim, an American poet and novelist, was required as the king of Greenwich Village Bohemians during the 1920s and his writing brought him international fame during the Jazz Age.

In the 20th-century United States, the bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the much more widespread 1960s counterculture, and 1960s and 1970s hippies.

Rainbow Gatherings may be seen as another contemporary worldwide expression of the bohemian impulse. An American example is Burning Man, an annual participatory arts festival held in the Nevada desert.

In 2001, political and cultural commentator David Brooks contended that much of the cultural ethos of well-to-do middle-class Americans is Bohemian-derived, coining the oxymoron "Bourgeois Bohemians" or "Bobos". A similar term in Germany is Bionade-Biedermeier, a 2007 German neologism combining Bionade a trendy lemonade classification and Biedermeier an era of introspective Central European culture between 1815 and 1848. The coinage was made in 2007 by Henning Sußebach, a German journalist, in an article that appeared in Zeitmagazin concerning Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg lifestyle. The hyphenated term gained traction and has been sent and referred to since. A German ARD TV broadcaster used the designation Boheme and Biedermeier in a 2009 documentary about Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. The main focus was on protagonists, that contributed to the theory of a paradise for the organic and child-raising well-to-do, depicting cafés where "Bionade-Biedermeier sips from Fair-Trade".