Spectacular Subcultures Mindmap
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- Created on: 17-11-21 16:23
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- Spectacular Subcultures
- Teddy boys
- 1950's
- Dead-end futures
- Hung around local cafes
- Edwardian-style, brightly coloured jackets, suede shoes and bootlace ties.
- They were trying to be like their middle-class superiors and the ties were like those worn by cowboys in Western films, who they saw as cool role models.
- Skinheads
- An exaggerate version of working-class masculinity.
- Rolled up jeans, braces and big boots- often with steel-toe caps.
- Macho, aggressive, and often racist.
- Felt their working-class identity was under threat due to the poor economic conditions and lack of jobs, so they exaggerate as a form of resistance.
- Football hooligans
- Mods
- Created a style that was a resistance against the middle class.
- Italian suits, fishtail parkers and Fred Perry polo’s.
- Vespa or Lambretta scooters which they often adapted themselves, adding numerous mirrors onto the sides.
- Music such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska and jazz, with bands such as The Who, The Kinks and The Jam.
- Punks
- Hebdige used the term ‘bricolage’ to describe punk culture.
- Ripped clothes and piercing their bodies and clothing with safety pins.
- Bin liners became tops, fetish clothes were worn as everyday items and hair was coloured and shaped in extreme ways.
- Resistance against the mainstream media and fashion industries, which were often telling the youth how to be.
- Bin liners became tops, fetish clothes were worn as everyday items and hair was coloured and shaped in extreme ways.
- Attracted working class, alienated youth and college students
- Had political elements, with bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash singing about poverty and ‘smashing the system’.
- Rockers
- 1960s
- Black leather jackets, jeans and boots.
- Rode round on motorbikes listening to rock and roll music.
- 'Biker culture'
- Unskilled, manual labourers.
- Teddy boys
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