TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christine Jacqueline Feldman-Barrett
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1555-1814
TI  - «We are the Mods»
T2  - A Transnational History of a Youth Subculture
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1106152
N2  - Drawing on archival research, oral history interviews, and participant observation, this examination of the adoption and adaptation of Mod style across geographic space also maps its various interpretations over time, from the early 1960s to the present. The book traces the Mod youth culture from its genesis in the dimly lit clubs of London’s Soho, where it began as a way for young people to reconfigure modernity after the chaos of World War II, to its contemporary, country-specific expressions. By examining Mod culture in the United States, Germany, and Japan alongside the United Kingdom, «We Are the Mods» contrasts the postwar development of Mod in those countries that lost the war with those that won. The book illuminates the culture’s fashion, music, iconography, and gender aesthetics, to create a compelling portrait of a transnational subculture.
KW  - Mods, youth, youth cultures, sixties, media studies, cultural studies, subcultures, oral history, ethnography
LA  - English
ER  -