Youth in the 1960's
- Created by: Charlie Merrell
- Created on: 06-06-13 16:56
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- Youth in the 1960's
- Education
- In the 1960's most areas of Britain had a grammar school and secondary schools
- Grammar school pupils went on to university where as secondary school pupils left at 14 or 15 to find work
- To get into grammar school you had to pass the 11+ test
- When working class students did make it into grammar school they didn't fit in with the other children
- Fashion
- In the 60's music and fashion went hand in hand. Popstars tried to outdo each other by wearing outragous clothing
- Many teens didn't go as far as the musicians, However, they did spend their money on new styles created by talented designers
- Mary Quant
- Here designs were lightweight and informal. She used a wide range of different materials and fabrics in her designs
- She invented the miniskirt
- Mary Quant
- As with music, what made this attractive to young people was that the older generation didn't understand
- Rebellion was about being different from your parents generation
- Music
- The most spectacular development in the 1960's youth culture was the explosion of youth culture
- Small band of young men and women wrote their own songs and played for people thier own age
- The Beatles made their reputation playing to teenage audiences and went on to be the biggest band in the 60's and in music history
- The Roling Stones openly sang about sex and drugs, The Who regularly smashed up their equipment on stage. Not suprisingly, there was a good deal of disaproval but it just made it more appealing to young people
- The BBC launched "radio one" in 1967 and began playing youth music as well as family oriented music
- Teenage Violence
- In 1964, there was a number of violent clashes between the mods and the rockers at a variety of seaside towns
- Newspapers yelled out in reaction, describing the teenagers as "marauding vikings", "odious louts" or "grubby hordes of louts and sluts"
- Looking back on it youths were arrested for trivial crimes such as stealing icecream"
- Rebellion
- Rebellion was about being different from your parents generation
- Films aimed at teenagers challenged traditional views about what was meant by good behavior
- "West Side Story" presented an image of cool teenage gangs and a doomed love affair between a boy and a girl from different communities
- Sex
- The 60's is widely regarded as a period of sexual revolution
- One form of rebellion that worried most parents were teenage attitudes to sex
- Improving antibiotics meant that common sexually transmitted diseases could be cured easily
- The contraceptive pill was available on the NHS in 1969
- Education
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