THE MODERNISTS
Fuelled by amphetamines, fast music, style
and the motor scooter, The Modernists is a non-stop ride with the Mods.
In the 1950s the Mods were the pure
distillation of Cool.
They adopted blues R&B and Bluebeat,
moved into basement clubs and developed their own dances,style and attitude.
Produced & directed by Rikki Tarascas
Tanglehead.co.uk
The mods and rockers were two conflicting
British youth subcultures of the early to mid-1960s. Media coverage of mods and
rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the
two groups became labelled as folk devils.
The rocker subculture was centred on
motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore
protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots
(although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The common rocker
hairstyle was a pompadour, while their music genre of choice was 1950s rock and
roll, played by artists like Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Bo Diddley. The
mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters.
Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres
such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska, beat music, and British blues-rooted bands
like The Who, The Yardbirds, and The Small Faces
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