Mods - Late 1950 till the 1960's - The mods wore italian tailer made suits and enjoyed looking sophisticated. They enjoyed riding the motorbikes around the seaside scenery, and every so often they would meet up with the Rockers to start a feud this always ended up with people getting arrested and paople getting hurt.
Rockers - 1950 till the 1970's - The rockers wore leather jackets with brylcream in there hair and doctor martion shoes. There leather jacket often contained safety pins and massive studs. There idols where Elvis Presly and The beatles. The often meet the Mods down down at deserlate locations, the most well known meeting was at Brighton where many people got arrested and fined.
Skinheads - 1960's till the 1977 - Skinheads got there name from have a close shaven or bald head. They had many tattoos and wore t-shirt, flight jacket, jean, Dr.martins and braces. They enjoyed listening to a band known as the 2 TONE.
Ravers - 1970 till the 1980 - The ravers where hardcore party animals and enjoyed getting stoned and drunk, this happened on a general bases. The ravers like to listen to music like THE NAILS.
Gamers - 1970's till present - Gamers are well known for people who spend hours a day on computer games or as known today on social network sites. Gamers are still present today and infact are more widely known today this is because technology is growing and becoming more advance. It started of when people were obesesed with playing PAC MAN.
Punk - 1975 till present- Punks where known for having outrages hair and bold make-up. They wore bright neon colours or just black clothing. They listened to Garage music or punk rock. The pucks are kost commonly know for the dancing moshing.
Goth - 1982 till present - Punks are know for having dark dull make up and wearing completely black and over the top clothing. They enjoy listening to music such as SLIP KNOT and enjoy preaching to the spirits and talking to the dead.
EMO`s - 1985 till present - EMO stands for emotional hardcore. EMO`s are know for wearing bright colours with darks colours and have outragoues coloured hair. There make-up was very extreme and false. In the late 80`s EMO`s where known for glamoursing salf harm and suicede.
Skaters - 1990`s till present - skaters are often similare to punk except they enjoy hardcore sport such as skatebording and roller blading. They genereally wore old clothing with rips and mud all over them and wore a beanie to cover there head.
what simlarties exist between youth cultures?
Each groups likes to follow there own style and expresses there emotions through there appearance.
what can you learn form the lenght of time they were active for?
From each group i have learnt that back when the youth culture were about they were very big and made a huge statement in there time.
why do youth cultures exist?
Youth cultures exsit because young adults and teenagers are aloud to express themselves through there appearance and the culture the belong to.
Excellent, Toni!
ReplyDeleteThink about how they all consume media (music, films, internet, fashion) - and why they do this? Is it to separate youths from adults and how does this impact their identity?