backpacker是什麽意思?

意思似乎不是雙肩背包。Backpacker was originally a slang term from the 1980s for a graffiti artist who always wore a backpack containing his music collection and, more importantly, his spray cans, markers, and spray tips. Typically, the music collection would consist only of local underground rap/hip-hop music artists. The sub-genre or sub-categorization of the music means nothing, as long as they are a local unsigned (no recording contract) artist. A backpacker's music selections are based upon three principles: 1) no mainstream, 2) the music is commercially unavailable, and 3) the music was given/sold to them hand-to-hand from the originating recording artist. However, these principles eventually became very loose, and soon many people who listened to commercially available underground rap or indie rap became known as backpackers.The term gradually came to refer to someone with this musical taste, and now has almost nothing to do with graffiti (although certain backpackers may participate in graffiti tagging.) The term also may have originated (or became popularized) through the association of indie hip hop listeners with underground rock movements such as straight edge. The straight edge fashion style often involves backpacks, sometimes even if the backpack is not being used. As underground rap listeners co-mingled with straight edge rockers (or any punk rocker with the backpack style), the term may have become even more popular.In the 1990s and 2000s, backpacker became a derogatory term to describe someone who listens ONLY to Independent hip-hop music, such as the nerdcore or emo rap sub-genre of hip-hop music. It is most often used in reference to (but not limited by) white suburbanite rap music listeners who tend to dislike mainstream rap music, specifically (but not limited to) gangsta rap.