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Disharmonize of two British youth subcultures

Mods and rockers were 2 alien British youth subcultures of the early/mid 1960s to early 1970s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and the two groups became widely perceived every bit violent, unruly troublemakers.

The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their advent reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective vesture such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots (although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The mode was heavily influenced by Marlon Brando in The Wild One.^[1] The mutual rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, while their music genre of option was 1950s rock and roll, played by artists including Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Bo Diddley.^[2]

The mod subculture was centred on manner and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and listened to 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and dejection, ska, beat music, and British blues-rooted bands like The Yardbirds, the Small Faces, and The Who, who wrote an evocative portrait of the cultures with their 1973 album Quadrophenia.^[three]

Physical conflicts [edit]

BBC News stories from May 1964 stated that mods and rockers were jailed later riots in seaside resort towns in Southern England, such as Margate in Kent, Brighton in Sussex, and Clacton in Essex.^{[4] [v]}

Conflicts took place at Clacton and Hastings during the Easter weekend of 1964.^[6] A 2nd round took place on the southward declension of England over the Whitsun weekend (18 and xix May 1964), especially at Brighton, where fights occurred over 2 days and moved along the coast to Hastings and back; hence the "2d Battle of Hastings" tag. A pocket-sized number of rockers were isolated on Brighton beach where they – despite beingness protected by police – were overwhelmed and assaulted by mods. Eventually calm was restored and a judge levied heavy fines, describing those arrested as "sawdust Caesars."^[vii]

Newspapers described the modernistic and rocker clashes every bit being of "disastrous proportions", and labelled mods and rockers as "vermin" and "louts".^[8] Paper editorials fanned the flames of hysteria, such every bit a Birmingham Mail editorial in May 1964, which warned that mods and rockers were "internal enemies" in the Britain who would "bring about disintegration of a nation's character". The mag Police Review argued that the mods and rockers' purported lack of respect for law and order could cause violence to "surge and flame like a forest burn".^[eight]

As a result of this media coverage, ii British Members of Parliament travelled to the seaside areas to survey the damage, and MP Harold Gurden chosen for a resolution for intensified measures to control hooliganism. I of the prosecutors in the trial of some of the Clacton brawlers argued that mods and rockers were youths with no serious views, who lacked respect for law and lodge.^{[ citation needed ]}

There were occasional incidents thereafter. The punk band The Exploited recorded the song "Fuck the Mods" on the B-side of their outset release and the tape's dorsum cover stated "To all the Edinburgh punks and skins – keep on modernistic-bashing!!" The ring performed in Finsbury Park, London in 1981 on the same dark that The Jam were playing nearby, and there was fighting after the gigs between the mods who had watched The Jam and the rockers who had watched The Exploited.^[ix]

Academic debunking [edit]

The sociologist Stanley Cohen was led past his retrospective study of the mods and rockers conflict to develop the term "moral panic". In his 1972 study Folk Devils and Moral Panics,^[8] he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s.^[10] He concedes that mods and rockers had some fights in the mid-1960s, but argues that they were no dissimilar from the evening brawls that occurred between youths throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, both at seaside resorts and afterward football games. He argues that the Great britain media turned the mod subculture into a negative symbol of delinquent and deviant condition.^[11]

Cohen argues that as media hysteria well-nigh knife-wielding, vehement mods increased, the image of a fur-collared anorak and scooter would "stimulate hostile and punitive reactions".^[12] He says the media used possibly faked interviews with supposed rockers such as "Mick the Wild Ane".^[13] The media also tried to exploit accidents that were unrelated to mod-rocker violence, such every bit an adventitious drowning of a youth, which resulted in the headline "Modernistic Dead in Sea".^[14]

Eventually, when the media ran out of existent fights to report, they would publish deceptive headlines, such as using a subheading "Violence", even when the commodity reported that at that place was no violence at all.^[11] Newspaper writers as well began to associate mods and rockers with various social bug, such as teen pregnancy, contraceptives, amphetamines, and violence.^[8]

Media [edit]

The 2010 remake of the 1948 film Brighton Rock is set in the era of mods and rockers, with Bank Holiday tribal clashes on Brighton promenades and beaches.

The 1979 film Quadrophenia starring Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash is as well set against the background of the 1964 Brighton disharmonism with the incident featuring prominently.

See also [edit]

• Mods & Rockers Film Festival
• Mod revival

Footnotes [edit]

1. ^ Stuart, Johnny (1987). Rockers!. London: Plexus. p. 24. ISBN0-85965-125-8.
2. ^ Subcultures List – Mods and Rockers Archived ii May 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 Feb 2012
3. ^ The Liverpool Project; The Scotland Route Group website; Part 2 – The Mods Archived 1 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 February 2012
4. ^ 1964: Mods and Rockers jailed later on seaside riots, London, England: BBC | On this day, 18 May 1964
5. ^ Covach, John; Flory, Andrew (2012), "Affiliate four: 1964-1966 The Beatles and the British invasion | XII Other important British blues revival groups | Due east. The Who", in Covach, John; Flory, Andrew (eds.), What's that sound?: an introduction to stone and its history , New York: Norton, ISBN9780393912043, half-dozen. The rockers emulated Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang leader character in "The Wild One" picture show (a) wore leather wearing apparel; (b) rode motorcycles; and (c) often engaged in brawls with the mods Book preview. Archived 22 April 2016 at the Wayback Car
6. ^ Carder, Timothy (1990). The encyclopaedia of Brighton. Lewes: East Sussex Canton Libraries. ISBN9780861473151. Excerpt at My Brighton and Hove | Dwelling | Topics | 1960s | 1960s: Mods and Rockers Archived 16 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ Ainsworth, Clark (i October 2011). "Margate capitalises on 1964 Mods and Rockers' riots". Margate, Kent: BBC News. Retrieved xxx June 2014. An exhibition called Talking Bout My Generation is being hosted in the building where the offenders were sentenced.
8. ^ ^{a b c d} Cohen, Stanley (2002). Folk devils and moral panics: the cosmos of the Mods and Rockers. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415267120.
9. ^ George Aforementioned (2009), Backward Moddy Boy, AuthorHouse, folio 20
10. ^ British Flick Commission (BFC) (PDF), Movie Education, archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2008
11. ^ ^{a b} Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics, p. 27.
12. ^ Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics. page 28
13. ^ Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics. page 31
14. ^ Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics. page 29

External links [edit]

• Rocker Reunion website
• The Mods and Rockers
• Mods – 1960s Fun Lovin' Criminals
• Rockers

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mods_and_rockers

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