Youth Culture Flashcards
What helped to create a youth generation that was more inclined to question norms and more ready to asset its right to choose?
The coincidence of increased living standards, the spread of education and the growth of leisure time
young people clashed with their parents over?
fashion,musical tastes and moral standards = greater questioning of previous norms around sex and drugs
-such behavior caused a good deal of concern among older generation
extent of teenage promiscuity and drug must?
be kept in proportion
what was used more than illegal drugs ?
alcohol, tobacco and caffeine
according to a survey in 1969, young people spent ?
more time listening to music in their bedroom than at youth clubs or rock festivals
youth culture was largely defined by ?
fashion and music
-short while in 1960s, London capital of the fashion world
-traditional rules were abandoned
clothing
-became acceptable to wear the same outfit tow work and for the evening
-women wore trousers, men started to wear velvets, satins + brightly coloured fabrics
as the decade progressed, trends became more progressed
changing fashions own way , mask some old social divisions, both between sexes and between classes
young people listened to popular music by
tuning in to one of the pirate radio stations or,from 1967 BBC radio one
television responded to demand with programmes like
ready steady go! (itv 1963)
top of the pops(BBC, 1964)
helped create spread latest trends in musics,dance,jargon , attitude and dress
new technology that enabled?
cheap plastic record players + records made music accessible to all
what emerged?
different youth cultures emerged
by end of 1960s what had emerged from the mods?
skinheads chaarcterised by their shaven heads,braces and Dr marten boots
hippies
rejected social convention and establishment attitudes
-embraced ‘flower power’ which emanated from America favoured alternative lifestyles with an emphasis on environmentalism, free love and peace
