countercultural

[kaun-ter-kuhl-cher-uhl]

adjective

1. challenging or resisting the established values, customs, or norms of a culture.

Example Sentences

Yes, there’s a turntable, along with an iPhone and posters of other countercultural figures from earlier generations.

From Los Angeles Times

“After achieving ubiquity in the 2010s and early 2020s, plant-based milks may have lost their cool, nonconformist quality — much like how, after more than a decade of liberal cultural supremacy, embracing authoritarian revanchism now feels like countercultural rebellion,” Bolotnikova wrote.

From Salon

In the music, fashion and expression that incorporates post-punk rebellion into Latin American culture, Angelenos are reviving a decades-long countercultural tradition, while redefining outdated ideas of what goth can be.

From Los Angeles Times

The hard-charging exuberance was appropriate for a production that went back to the concept album roots of a rock opera that, like other countercultural musicals of the period — such as “Hair” and “Godspell” — preached peace and love while rebelling against oppression and conformity.

From Los Angeles Times

According to Levine, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” may have run for only two years, but its mix of political satire, countercultural music and discussions on civil rights and freedom of speech “left an indelible mark on the fabric of American society.”

From Salon