TEENAGERS' SUBCULTURES

Development of subcultures

Western countries are the best known area of development of different kinds of teenagers' subcultures.

In the late 50s a great number of teenagers' movements appeared and members of those movements opposed themselves to society and expressed protest in specific way of talking, clothing, acting and in peculiar art style they had created, especially music. This movement is characterized with a vivid interest to oneself and to those who just-like-me. We may draw as an example of such movement The Beatniks who expressed their protest against bourgeois way of living through wearing the cheapest clothes they were able to find and lived in the  places with the most terrible conditions you can ever imagine.

The same period of western countries' history is characterized by appearance of rock'n'roll movement based on music that was a mix of blues and hillbilly. Rock'n'roll turned to be not just another music genre, it appeared to be able to form a new culture and a brand new social consciousness. At first rock'n'roll was forbidden by government but with the laps of time taboo was canceled, more over government used rock'n'roll as a mean of distracting peoples' attention from the serious social problems that were impossible to solve. 1964 is famous for appearance of mods. Mods were children of high-qualified parents who were of great need at that time. With their keen hair-does and clothes they parodied social fall; they were hard-workers from Monday till Friday and rebels on weekends.

1967 was the year of hippies' movement culmination. Hippy appeared right after mods, they replaced mods aggression with "Make love but not war" slogan. Hippies believed that their fathers turned world into cemetery of comfort and luxury, no matter that hippies itself were the children of welfare bourgeois. Hippies chose a flower as their brand as they believed that flower is the most beautiful creation of nature. Their cloths were the mix of different cultures' national cloth. They wear Indians moccasins, Buddhist beads etc.

The rockers movement appeared at the late 70th. Rockers are guys who ride motorbikes and escape any duties. They wear leather jackets and trousers and drive all over the world. In Germany  an alternative movement Nazirockers appeared .

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