1968: Mods, Rockers and the YOUTH CULTURE EXPLOSION in the UK | Sound of Change | BBC Archive

“The teddy boys were really the first sign of a distinctive British youth culture.”

Theorists Stuart Hall and Peter Worsley deconstruct the phenomenon of teddy boys and mods while we hear testimony from the people who were there themselves. They talk about the conflict of interest between the perceived violence associated with these groups and the marketability of pop music which may have celebrated sex and violence.

Bill Haley also talks about these ideas in reference to the popularity of his music in the 1950s.

Clip taken from The Sound Of Change, originally broadcast on 10 September, 1968,





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