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As the mod subculture grew in London during the early-to-mid-1960s, tensions arose between the mods, often riding highly decorated motor scooters, and their main rivals, the rockers, a British subculture who favoured rockabilly, early rock'n'roll, motorcycles and leather jackets, and considered the mods effeminate because of their interest in ...
The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods wore parkas and rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and listened to music genres such as modern jazz, soul, Motown, ska and British blues-rooted bands like the Yardbirds, the Small Faces, and later the Who and the Jam.
Elements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits); music (including soul, rhythm and blues, ska, jazz, and later splintering off into rock and freakbeat after the peak Mod era); and motor scooters (usually Lambretta or Vespa). The original mod scene was associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing at clubs. [138]
Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz. [ 2 ] ^ Grossman, Henry; Spencer, Terrance; Saton, Ernest (13 May 1966).
The mod subculture began with a few cliques of trendy teenage boys in London, England in the late 1950s, but was at its most popular during the early 1960s. Mods were obsessed with new fashions such as slim-cut suits; and music styles such as modern jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, ska , and some beat music .
The following management theories and practices appeared on a 2004 list of management fashions and fads compiled by Adrian Furnham, [5] who arranged them in rough chronological order by their date of appearance, 1950s to 1990s: Management by objectives; Matrix management; Theory Z; One-minute management; Management by wandering around; Total ...
Peter Alexander Edwin Meaden (11 November 1941 – 29 July 1978) was an English publicist for various musicians and the first manager for the Who.He was a prominent figure in the English Mod subculture of the early 1960s.
Schein, [12] Deal and Kennedy, [7] and Kotter [13] advanced the idea that cultures are diverse and may encompass subcultures linked to an individual management teams. [14] Ravasi and Schultz [15] and Allaire and Firsirotu [16] claim that organizational culture represents the collective values, beliefs and principles of organizational members.