youth

Question 1

improved technology provided young people with

Answer 1

spending power and lesiure time

Question 2

teenagers and people in their 20s became

Answer 2

a new social category
–targeted by advertisers, age of intensifying consumerism = create a niche market

Question 3

youth culture in 1970s continued to cause concerns for older generations
in many ways youth subcultures reflected?

Answer 3

the social,politcal and economic battles going on

Question 4

in 1975-76 what started?

Answer 4

the punk movement
-influenced by bands from us e.g new york dolls who rejected commercialism

Question 5

British bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned and Buzzcocks played?

Answer 5

loud,fast guitar music where the word were often shouted over the top of the music
-much of punk philosophy = nihilistic, lyrics reflected social alienation many young people felt

Question 6

image of punks also designed to be shocking. Punks wore?

Answer 6

bondage gear, saftey pins, ripped Tshirts and had spikey hair

Question 7

what did Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren open which was influential on the punk image?

Answer 7

opened a boutique called SEX on the Kings Road in Chelsea, London which sold these items punks wore

Question 8

At pun concerts both performers and audiences?

Answer 8

spat on each other, often violent scruffles,punk created moral panic

Question 9

what had developed from mod culture at the end of the 1960s ?

Answer 9

skinheads

Question 10

skinheads

Answer 10

tended to be working clas and were initially influenced by Jamaican music and culture
-were apolitical but end of 1970s some skinheads became increasingly linked to national front + football hooliganism

Question 11

football hooliganism - probelm behinning of the 1970s but gradually worsened over the decade

Answer 11

organised hooligan groups set up linked to particular clubs such as Chelsea headhunters
-violence became so common, football hooliganism knwona s = ‘the english disease’