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Three rockers on Chelsea Bridge Two mods on a scooter. Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the late 1950s to mid 1960s. Media coverage of the two groups fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and they became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers.
The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term "moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, [5] in which he examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. [6] By 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia.
Mods and Rockers is a 1964 British short film directed by Kenneth Hume and produced by Anglo-Amalgamated. [1] It features the Western Theatre Ballet company based on their ballets "Mods and Rockers" and "Non-Stop". They also perform a dance to Beatles compositions.
Kenneth Hume (22 March 1926 – 25 June 1967) was a British filmmaker and manager known for being married to Shirley Bassey. [1]Hume made the ballet film Mods and Rockers. [2]
The name "rocker" came not from music, but from the rockers found in 4-stroke engines, as opposed to the two stroke engines used by scooters and ridden by mods. [ citation needed ] During the 1950s, [ 9 ] they were known as "ton-up boys" because doing a ton is English slang for driving at a speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) or over.
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. Many of them rode scooters. The mod and rude boy cultures both influenced the skinhead subculture of the late 1960s. The skinheads were a harder, more working class version of mods who wore basic ...
They are cited as an influence by many hard rock, punk, power pop and mod bands. The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. The Who evolved from an earlier group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying guitars and drums on stage.
The Alley has become a shrine to the Mod movement, [1] and people come from all over the world to find this alleyway. [2] The cult film was set in Brighton in 1964, the period of the Mods and Rockers. In May 1964, masses of Mods and Rockers descended from London onto Brighton Beach, resulting in a mass fight that shocked the nation.