TAMARA AKOTUAH: Subculture- Hippies

Hippies from Tamara Akotuah

Visual Kei

Punks

B-Boys -- 1970s Sub-Culture

Media 1970s – B-Boys from Susan Fagbohun

Amber's Prezi - Mods vs Rockers

Teddy Boys - Ryan Sampaio

Teddy Boys

The Teddy Boys is a subculture that began in London, in the 1950's. They were partially inspired by Dandies and their styles from the Edwardian period. It was a style that Savile Row tailors attempted to re-introduce post World War 2, a style which soon rapidly spread around the UK. They wore very smart 3 piece suits, with long overcoats and quiffed hair.

The Teddy Boys were also the first youth group in England to differentiate themselves as teenagers, which helped create a youth market. Later in the 50's, the became more influenced by post-war American Rock n Roll style, in which zoot suits became more fashionable. They also later influenced the greasers, a sub-culture in the states.

The media represented the Teddy Boys in a negative way, describing them to be 'aggressive' and 'violent.' This started to occur when some of the Teds began to form gangs and had many clashes with rival gangs, which were often exaggerated by the press. A notable incident was the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, in which the West Indian community were attacked by gangs of white people, where many Teddy Boys were believed to of been involved, in these series of racially motivated attacks.

Media Homework Subculture - Mods

Mods


Mods was a group in London who had a group of people following a 'style'. They are a subculture which was formed in the late 1950's to the start of the 1060's. The way they stood out was through their clothes and what vehicle they drove. They were mostly seen wearing parker jackets with their own vesper scooters.

Interests
-They would normally in to the genres of African American soul, R&B ect
-They had a smart and classy look with dress sense and would also wear shades
-They loved their vespers usually have a unique scooter to others by the way they are customized
- The subculture also were known for the way they did their hair

Rival Sub culture
They had a rival subculture gang known as the rockers.The Mods and rockers had many conflicts between each other and most cases they would end up fighting. The rockers dressed dressed almost completely opposite to the mods, they would wear black leather jackets and have there biker gang look. Mods mostly wore designer suits whilst rockers had the leather jackets copying the Elvis style.They were the division youth culture in the early 1960s