Underground culture (disambiguation)

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An underground culture is a subculture or counterculture that exists outside the scope of mainstream mass media and popular culture. It may also refer to:

• Underground culture, is a term to describe various alternative cultures which either consider themselves different from the mainstream of society and culture, or are considered so by others.
• Underground comix, small press or self-published alternative comic books
• Underground economy or black market, commerce under the radar of taxes and regulations
• Underground film, cinema outside the commercial mainstream
• Underground music, music with a following despite moderate commercial success
  • Underground hip hop, a style of hip hop music
• Underground art, art with a following independent of commercial success
• Underground press, the alternative print media in the late 1960s and early 1970s
• UK underground, a 1960s countercultural movement in the United Kingdom