Growth of youth culture, 1955-79 (4b) Flashcards
In which generation did youth culture take place?
Baby boomers generation; after WW2 there was a great influx of births.
What decade was the baby boomers In their teenage years?
1950s
How could Teddy Boys be identified?
Teddy Boys could be identifies by slicked back hair, Edwardian jackets and drainpipe trousers.
What were teddy Boys associated with?
They ere associated with an extreme lack of deference and violence.
How were Teddy Boys related to racial violence?
As evidenced by the number of Teddy Boys presented at the Notting Riots Carnival in 1958.
What was the Notting Riots Carnival in 1958?
These attacks were launched by a frustrated white feeling of being ‘swamped’ by arrivals from the Caribbean and the initial television coverage seems to suggest it was a largely black violence by choosing to beam images of attacks on an overly aggressive police force buildings catching fire.
In reality, Teddy boys were instigated in the violence.
What were the two other social groups that emerged between the 1960s?
Mods and Rockers
What are mods identifies as?
Mods are identified as riding Vespas, Lambrettas and other motor scooters who’s originated from Italy.
What are Rockers identified as?
Rockers tended to identify more with the rock n’ roll culture, which was imported from the USA.
What happened in 1964?
In 1964, there were a series of fights between the two groups at seaside reports across the UK, including in Margate and Brighton. Over 100 arrests were made across both locations. This violence also found a home at football matches, where rival gangs of men used to gatherings as an excuse to fight. Gradually football hooliganism became part of Britain football culture and remained so throughout the 1980s, until he rebranding and marketing exercise that eventually gave birth to the Premier League in the early 1990s.
How was the violence in youth culture made worse?
The violence in youth culture was made worse by the face that mod culture mired into skinhead culture in the 1970s.
What did skinheads embrace?
Skinheads embraced a working class arrogance and hatred that merged with aggressive artistic impressions and in some cases people lashed out in actual violence.
What decade was there high point in football hooliganism?
1970s
Did football every become more respectable?
Although football became more ‘respectable’ in the interwar period, and violence went into decline, levels of disorder and public concern about them rose sharply in the 1960s, in connection with the number of other moral panics, relating to new young cultures and flowing racial tensions.
What did football stadiums become?
Football stadiums rapidly became identified as public spaces where large scale threatening trials displays and fights could be staged.
