![]() īy 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia. The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term " moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. ĭuring the early to mid-1960s, as mod grew and spread throughout the UK, certain elements of the mod scene became engaged in well-publicised clashes with members of a rival subculture: rockers. One notably instrumental figure in the movement's origins was British fashion designer Mary Quant. The original mod scene was associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night jazz dancing at clubs. ![]() In the mid-1960s, the subculture listened to rock groups with mod following, such as the Who and Small Faces, after the peak Mod era. ![]() Įlements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits) music (including soul, rhythm and blues, ska and mainly jazz) and motor scooters (usually Lambretta or Vespa). Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men and women in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz. Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in London and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries, and continues today on a smaller scale. Two mid-1960s mods on a customised Lambretta scooter
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