Ross Buncle argues that eventually the Australian punk scene "opened the door to a host of poseurs, who were less interested in the music than in UK-punk fancy dress and being seen to be hip". "Poseur" is often a pejorative term, as used in the punk, heavy metal, hip hop, and goth subcultures, or the skateboarding, surfing and jazz communities, when it is used to refer to a person who copies the dress, speech, and/or mannerisms of a group or subculture, generally for attaining acceptability within the group or for popularity among various other groups, yet who is deemed not to share or understand the values or philosophy of the subculture.ĭevotees of various music subcultures, like the goth subculture, value authenticity highly Punk subculture ĭavid Marsh, in an article in Rock & Rap, speaking of "those first punk kids in London" says, "The terms in which they expressed their disdain for hangers-on and those whose post-hip credentials didn't quite make it came straight out of the authenticity movements: Poseurs was the favorite epithet". The Online Etymology Dictionary, suggests that "poseur" is in fact the English word "poser" dressed "in French garb, and thus could itself be considered an affectation." Use within contemporary subcultures It is from the French word poseur, and from the Old French word poser, meaning "to put, place, or set". ![]() The word in English use dates back to the mid 19th Century. ![]() The English term "poseur" is a loanword from French. In the ancient Greek comedy The Clouds, the playwright Aristophanes portrays Socrates as a "poseur". The whole point of the creature is that he is unique, fantastic, unrepresentative, inimitable, impossible, undesirable on any large scale, utterly unlike anybody that ever existed before, hopelessly unnatural, and void of real passion." The playwright and critic, George Bernard Shaw, has been described as a poseur in that context Shaw is quoted as saying, "I have never pretended that G.B.S. His fame as an artist seemed to require that he present himself as a poseur. It has been suggested that Whistler's genius lay partly in his ability to cultivate the role of the poseur, to "act as if he were always on stage", in order to stir interest, and cause people to wonder how such a poseur could create work that was so serious and authentic. Whistler has been sometimes described as a "poseur" for his manner and personal style. Lord Alfred Douglas said of Wilde, "That he had what passed for genius nobody will, I think, nowadays dispute, though it used to be the fashion to pooh-pooh him for a mere poseur and decadent." Thomas Hardy said of him, "His early reputation as a poseur and fop – so necessary to his notoriety – recoiled upon the scholar and gentleman (as Wilde always innately was), and even upon the artist". The playwright Oscar Wilde has been described as a "poseur". Oscar Wilde (right) and Lord Alfred Douglas
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