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| The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups were seen as folk devils. The rockers adopted a macho biker gang image, wearing clothes such as black leather jackets. The mods adopted a pose of scooter-driving sophistication, wearing suits and... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Mods and Rockers
The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups were seen as folk devils. -
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Mods & Rockers Film Festival
The Mods & Rockers Film Festival is an annual Los Angeles film festival that celebrates rock culture. ... The festival title was inspired by the name given to the two warring British youth subcultures prevalent in the early toid 1960s - the mods and rockers. -
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Mod (lifestyle)
Mod (originally modernist, sometimes capitalised) is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s. ... Main article: Mods and Rockers -
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Mod revival
The mod revival was a music genre and subculture that started in the United Kingdom in 1978 and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree). ... This originated in the early 1960s with the mods and rockers fighting each other at places such as Brighton. -
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Mod (subculture)
Mod (originally modernist, sometimes capitalised) is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s. ... Main article: Mods and Rockers -
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Brighton Rock (film)
Brighton Rock is a 1947 British drama film directed by John Boulting based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene. ... Joffe will move the setting from the 1930s to the 1960s, during the mods and rockers era -
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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 2 April 1959, in the East End of London, which was an underprivileged area at the time. ... At the time, the rockers were considered folk devils, due to their clashes with scooter-riding mods (see Mods and Rockers). -
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Moral panic
A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. ... While many believe the term was coined by Stanley Cohen to describe press reporting and the reaction of the establishment to the behaviour of mods and rockers, it was actually first used by his colleague Jock Young in reference to the reaction to drug takers in Notting Hill. -
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Kustom Kulture
"Kustom Kulture" is a American neologism used to describe the artwork, the vehicles, the hairstyles, and the fashions of those who drove and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today. ... Other subcultures that have had an influence on Kustom Kulture are the Skinheads, mods and rockers of the 1960s, the punk rockers of the 1970s, the metal and rockabilly music, along with the scooterboys of the 1980s, and psychobilly of the 1990s. -
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Rocker (subculture)
Rockers are members of a subculture that started in the United Kingdom in the 1960s among motorcycle riding youths. ... Mods and rockers became known for Bank Holiday clashes in the southern English holiday resorts of Clacton, Margate and Brighton.
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