Mod (subculture)

A Mod (short for modernist) is a member of a subculture which in the London of the late 50 's to mind and there in the middle of the ' 60s peaked.

The term mod derives from modernist, a term that was used in the 1950s to modern jazz musicians and their fans to describe. In the book Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnesis the modernist described as a young scherpgesneden who got that in modern Italian suits dressed goes.



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[hide] *1 Characteristics  ==Characteristics[ Edit] == Important elements of the mod subculture were: a strong fashion consciousness, a preference for music as soul, Jamaican ska, British beat music and rhythm-and-blues. Bands such as The Kinks, Small Faces, The Spencer Davis Group and The Who were popular with the mods.
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 * 3 clashes with rockers
 * 4 Modculture in Netherlands

Because the mods transport needed but their clothing not covered by the fat and oil should be, the means of transport was the scooter of the Mods. Scooters of mods were often equipped with accessories such as mirrors and all kinds of lamps. Mods often wore parkas to protect their formal dress. In the 1960s used the British media to describe something that the term mod often popular, fashionable or modern was considered. ==Revival[ Edit] == Under the influence of the film Quadrophenia it came in the United Kingdom from the late 1970s to a revival of the mod subculture. The United States also had a revival of the mod subculture, this took place in the early 1980s and particularly in southern California. The mods inspired later bands like The Jam with Paul Weller and Ocean Colour Scene. ==Confrontations with rockers[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the England of the early sixties existed two main subcultures: those of the mods and the rockers. The contradictions between both groups were magnified and led after clashes during a series of holiday weekends in a media-driven moral panic. The rockers saw the mods as effeminate snobs who were obsessed by clothing. The rockers were in turn portrayed as primitive, shabby, naive and overly masculine. In May 1964 it came to clashes between mods and rockers. The BBC reported that mods and rockers were put caught after riots in English seaside resorts such as Margate, Brighton, Bournemouth and Clacton-on-Sea<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] . ==Modculture in Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although there were big differences with Great Britain one had in Netherlands a subculture of Nagaraj groups that was reminiscent of the Mods. In Amsterdam, the Pleinerswere in the Hague the frogs, in Utrecht the Sjors customers and in Hilversum the Natnek cherry. Instead of the scooter rode on a Puch-moped, one was wearing suede shoes Clarks desertboots brand and parkas. The music choice was the same, although not really popular in Netherlands ska was. Except in the Hague were the clashes with their arch rivals such as Dent, frogs, Greaseheads or Rockers not usually serious. These were about the same dressed as in Great Britain, instead of a motorcycle they drove on belly sliders asKreidler and Zündapp. In the Hague in the early sixties there was some serious riots between the Bulls and the frogs.