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 

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Research- Christabell Ndive- New Romantics

New Romantics- Youth subculture

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Examples of musical preferences :

Duran Duran- Planet Earth 

They are dressed with the frilly fop tops, and also have

the hairstyle that is part of the New Romantics collective identity.

Their music is based on synthesized/ electronic sounds.

Part of the lyrics in the first  0.38 seconds the lyrics mention the subculture
 'Like some new romantic looking for the tv sound  '

Boy George- Turn 2 Dust

This is one of his most modern music videos released in 2011.

He is still dressed according to the flamboyant and eccentric fashion styles.
His heavy makeup, and evidence of dance pop is also part of the
collective identity in the New Romantics subculture.

Representation In The Media

This BBC story shows how the BBC Radio 2's new series: The story of the New Romantics presented by Martin Fry aims to change the way the public look at this subculture. He argues that  although their music embraces new technology, and has influenced budding stars music. Their music is against gritty backdrop, riots and unemployment. 

Dj Rusty Egan pointed out that they have to dig around to glamorise their glum,horrible boring existence with no future. The programme explains how they decide to ''party and get dressed up'' in the face of social hardship. This is a negative portrayal of the subcultural group.

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The debate above argues about if people should be celebrating the end of rationality in favor of a more romantic sensibility? Or are we ourselves entering an age of magic and unreason and romantic superstition.

Lesson 2 HOMEWORK- JULIANA LOPEZ

MODS!

MODS:


Mods, is a subculture that started off in London during the late 1950's to the early 1960's,
Mods were usually seen wearing parker jackets and riding vesper scooters, they were also known to listen to Ska music.
they were also associated with wearing beanies which is another way they would be known to be Mods.

Important aspects of the Mod subculture:

-Pop music, also including: Jamaican ska, African American soul, R&B.
-Their fashion ( Often tailored suits )
- Male mods often had a sophisticated look. And by wearing mohair clothes, wool or cashmere jumpers, button down shirts, pointed leather shoes often known as 'winklepickers'.
-They would also imitate the French Nouvelle vague cinema actors such as Jean-Paul.

Conflict:

- The mods and the rockers were in conflict with each other in the early to mid 1960's. Mods and Rocker gangs that were fighting in 1964 which created moral panic resulting in the public assuming that these two rival gangs were the folk devils.
- The rockers looked the opposite of the mods, they opted for the more macho biker gang image wearing colours such as black and leather jackets.
- By late 1966, the negative stereotype of the two subcultures had faded and the media started to focus more on the hippy and skinhead sub culture that was emerging.
- The mods considered the rockers to be: effeminate snobs, weedy and the rockers considered the mods to be out of touch, grubby and oafish.
- The mods often wore designer suits, however the rockers wore leather jackets and imitated Elvis.
- The two groups represented the division in British youth culture for the early part of the 60's.
- The Rockers listened to 1950's Rock n Roll which mostly by White American artists such as Eddie Cochran and Elvis Presley.


Media portrayal:

Hipsters

Hippies

-The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that started in the USA during the mid 1960s. The subculture continued to the 1970s and spread d across the world

-Their movement was the rejection of the mainstream American life.

-The movement arose in part as opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1955–75), hippies were often not directly engaged in politics.

-Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts.

- They developed their own distinctive style.

• Men often grew beards
• Both male and female would wear sandals, beads and rimless glasses
• Long hair was favored
• Granny floral dressed was often worn

-Hippies advocated nonviolence and love, a popular phrase being “Make love, not war,” for which they were sometimes called “flower children.” 

-Public gatherings—part music festivals, sometimes protests, often simply excuses for celebrations of life—were an important part of the hippie movement.

-Following in the footsteps of the Beats, many hippies used cannabis (marijuana), considering it pleasurable

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