COP Lecture - Subculture: The Meaning of Style

No subcultures anymore?

"Youth cultural styles begin by issuing symbolic challenges but they must end by establishing new commodities, new industries or rejuvenating old ones."

Challenging main stream society

Punk - anarchist anti-capitalist

Punk - radical, pan-ratial, formed by alienated youth

Red or Dead - Politics

No conscription

Rock n Roll - Pop culture, came from the USA

Teddy Boys 

First youth culture , pivotal, peacock, DA (Duck arse), brothel creepers, waist coat, straight cut jacket

Working class adopting higher class clothes and downgrading it

Middle class youth culture - downgrade - casual - abandonment

Racist

Rockers

Bikes and fighting - American film culture

Generation gap - parents didn't want it

Modernists - Stylists

1966 - Tiles - Mod club

Mods and rockers -  Brighton

Hippies - mods

Skinheads

Hard working, militant, stripped down mods

Style - Conservative, neat, tidy

Proud to be working class, multi-cultural

Girls - suits

Second Generation

Racist 

Minority

National Front

Ridiculous

How to sway young population

Soul Boys

Northern Soul

Wigan - Heart of the soul scene

Dancing - wonderful, friendly movement

Underground - you had to travel too it

No political statements

Accepting of everyone

Wasn't about bands - imported music

Punk

1970's - dismal, no money

Malcolm Maclaren

SEX - Vivienne Westwood

Montage of all from before

"Do It Yourself"

Feminist ideas which were put to power

Art, music, Literature - Punk

Two Tone

The Specials - Political

Mods, Skinheads and Rudeboys

All subcultures are getting smaller and smaller because they are getting more chronicled

Football Hooligan

1980's

Liverpool played away abroad, brought back Fila, Ellesse, Adidas

Ravers

Political

Drugs - chilled out

Dressed to sweat


Why might Sub cultures not be around anymore?

Technology - Its so easy for people to get music online, people don't have to travel to get it or form groups to listen to it, they can listen to it in their own home behind a screen. Also, a lot of people have got eclectic tastes in music so there is no need for one group that likes a particular style.