YOUTH SUBCULTURES

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YOUTH SUBCULTURES

• School 1173 Form 9E
• Zverev Aziz
• Remnyov Julius
• Guidance Markova S.A.

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Why did we create this project?

• There are different youth groupings nowadays and
  a lot of teenagers should know what is the
  difference between them and what aims they have.
• To enable this task we created this project, we
  hope, it will be interesting for our schoolmates
  to read about informal groups, that existed in
  the past and still exist today.

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The Hippies

• The trouble in trying to define what hippies ARE
  is that the hippies were really a historical
  phenomenon which began in the mid-1960's and
  ended perhaps ten years later. In that sense,
  then, the hippies no more exist today than do the
  beatniks of the 1940's and 1950's, the Harlem
  hipsters of the 1920's, or the bohemians of the
  late 19th century. City in the 1940's.

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BEFORE and AFTER

• You have to define what hippies WERE, not what
  they are. And to understand what the hippies
  were, you need to understand where they came
  from. Here, at least, the answer is fairly
  straightforward.
• The hippies were an outgrowth of what is now
  called the Beat Generation, or to use the more
  popular term, the beatniks. Originally a literary
  movement, the Beats started out as a handful of
  students at Columbia University in New York City
  inin the 1940's.

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Children of old Hippies

• I believe that a great many punks really are
  children of old hippies. As you were trying to
  tell a young-hippie how to survive in this
  capitalist world and not "turn into their
  parents," i think punks are trying for the same
  thing.

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The problem is one of

• Thanks for enlightening us about punks. First I
  would like to state something obvious that many
  people who consider themselves hippies - don't
  look like hippies. And the reverse is also true.
  Many people who appear to be hippies, aren't. I'm
  sure the situation is similar with punks. The
  problem is one of stereotyping.

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Are Punks A Manifestation of Hippies?

• As far as I'm concerned, gutter punks are the
  closest thing to hippies. Im not talking about
  suburban-punks.. We are both without a shower and
  have a wander-lust that takes us across the
  country. Some hitchhike, some hop-trains, some
  live communally...in abandoned houses. (It was
  hippies that paved our way for hitchhiking and
  sometimes i wish it was still as easy to get
  rides as it was for the hippies)

• Some of us travel with them, even stop along at a
  Rainbow Gathering, although i met a few who
  really didn't like it. This hippie shared some
  really great wisdom with me I want to travel,
  but right now i live at home, go to high school
  and can't get a GED for want of being an artist.
  He told me I'm trapped in my life decisions and
  only i really can't listen to anyone else to make
  my choice. "Go sit by yourself and just think
  about what i said, after im gone, after i left,
  and only do it for you." Would my parents tell me
  that?

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Mods and Rockers

• Musically, there was not much common ground.
  Rockers listened to 1950s rock and roll, mostly
  by white American artists such as Elvis Presley,
  Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. Mods generally
  favoured 1960s rhythm and blues, soul and ska by
  black American and Jamaican musicians, although
  many of them also liked British RB/beat groups
  such as The Who, The Small Faces and The
  Yardbirds.citation needed

• The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British
  youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s.
  Rockers, who wore leather jackets and rode heavy
  motorcicles, poured scorn on the mods, who often
  wore suits and rode scooters. The rockers
  considered mods to be weedy, effeminate snobs,
  and mods saw rockers as out of touch, oafish and
  grubby.

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The late 1970s mod revival

• Stylistic originsMod, RB, Jazz, Reggae, Ska,
  Soul, Beat, Power pop, Pub rock, Punk rock, New
  Wave

• The late 1970s mod revival combined musical and
  cultural elements of the 1970s pub rock, punk
  rock and New Wave music genres with influences
  from 1960s mod and beat music bands such as The
  Who, Small Faces and The Kinks. The revival was
  largely spurred on by the band The Jam, who had
  adopted a stark mod look and mixed the energy of
  punk with the sound of 1960s mod bands.

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The 59 Club

• The 59 Club, also written as The Fifty Nine Club
  and known as "the '9", started as a Church of
  England-based youth club founded in Hackney Wick
  on April 2, 1959, in the East End of London,
  which was an underprivileged area at the time.
  Membership is open to anyone with an interest in
  motorbikes.

                                    
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a youth club at the Eton Mission

• The Club started originally as a youth club at
  the Eton Mission in Hackney Wick, London in 1959
  and was led by the Reverend John Oakes. Later,
  being that he was a motorcyclist himself, Father
  William Shergold decided to hold a church service
  for motorcyclists in 1962.

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Father Bill Christens one of the newest 59 Club
members

• He finally plucked up courage and visited The Ace
  Cafe on the North Circular Road and handed out
  leaflets about the service. He had an immense
  reaction. The church was full of 'Rockers'. Even
  some of their 'bikes were brought into the church
  to be blessed.
• As this had never been heard of before, the press
  had a field day!

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Goths

• The original Goths were an Eastern Germanic tribe
  who played an important role in the fall of the
  western Roman Empire. In some circles, the name
  "goth" later became pejorative synonymous with
  "barbarian" and the uncultured due to the
  then-contemporary view of the fall of Rome and
  depictions of the pagan Gothic tribes during and
  after the process of Christianization of Europe.

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Goths

• In the United Kingdom, by the late 1700s,
  however, nostalgia for the medieval period led
  people to become fascinated with medieval gothic
  ruins. This fascination was often combined with
  an interest in medieval romances, Roman Catholic
  religion and the supernatural.

• During the Renaissance period in Europe, medieval
  architecture was retroactively labeled gothic
  architecture, and was considered unfashionable in
  contrast to the then-modern lines of classical
  architecture.

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Goths

• Goth fashion is stereotyped as a dark, sometimes
  morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress.
  Typical gothic fashion includes dyed black hair,
  dark eyeliner, black fingernails, black
  period-styled clothing goths may or may not have
  piercings. Styles are often borrowed from the
  Elizabethan, Victorian or medieval period and
  often express Catholic or other religious imagery
  such as crucifixes or ankhs.

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The British Teddy Boy subculture

• The British Teddy Boy subculture is typified by
  young men wearing clothes inspired by the styles
  of the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors
  had tried to re-introduce after World War II. The
  group got its name after a 1953 newspaper
  headline shortened Edward to Teddy and coined the
  term Teddy Boy (also known as Ted

• The subculture started in London in the 1950s and
  rapidly spread across the UK, soon becoming
  strongly associated with American rock and roll
  music of the period. The Teddy Boys were the
  first youth group in England to differentiate
  themselves as teenagers, thus helping to create a
  youth market.

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Raggare

• Raggare have existed since the 1950s and haven't
  changed much since then. Cars are an important
  part of the subculture, especially large cars
  .Other popular cars are the fintail Mercedes, the
  Volvo Amazon, and modified cars from the Volvo
  200 series.

• Statistically, the most common Raggare car is the
  1960s Pontiac Bonneville. They are plentiful,
  classic, relatively cheap, and have a huge
  backseat so they can pile in all of their Raggare
  friends.

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Moral panicideal raggare cars

• When raggare first appeared, they caused a moral
  panic with concerns about the use of alcohol,
  violence, high-speed driving. Raggare gangs was
  seen as a serious problem Still considered a
  menace to society but not as much and often more
  seen as amusing, the raggare subculture lives on
  in Sweden.

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Moral panic

• Moral panic can be defined as "the intensity of
  feeling expressed by a large number of people
  about a specific group of people who appear to
  threaten the social order at a given time."
  Stanley Cohen, author of the seminal (1973),
  says moral panic occurs when "a condition,
  episode, person or group of persons emerges to
  become defined as a threat to societal values and
  interests."Those who start the panic when they
  fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural
  values, are known by researchers as "moral
  entrepreneurs", while the people who supposedly
  threaten the social order are known as a "folk
  devil." They are byproducts of controversies that
  produce arguments and social tension, or aren't
  easily discussed as some of these moral panics
  are taboo to many people. The media have long
  operated as agents of moral indignation, even if
  they are not self-consciously engaged in
  crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the
  facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety
  or panic.

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Web Links

• wikipedia
• hippy.uk
• bbc