British Youth Culture

Modul 1105-1
Dr.- C. Steger
 What do ‘moral panics’ concerning youth tell us about Victorian society?

 Was there a definable youth culture in Britain between the wars?

 Discuss the context and impact of post-war immigration on youth culture.
 Discuss the social and political context of the rise of the ‘Teddy Boy’.
 ‘Passive Barbarian’ (Richard Hoggart) or ‘Absolute Beginner’ ( Colin
MacInnes)? Which term best describes the teenager in 1950s Britain?
 In what ways can Mod subculture be seen as representation of change in
Britain in the 1960s?
 Was there a cultural revolution in the 1960s and early 1970s?
 What did punk represent? What is punk today?
 Discuss the concepts of race and (or) gender in relation to youth culture.
 Examine the concepts of race and (or) gender in relation to popular music.
 How important was popular music in post-war Britain?
 What impact has youth culture and popular music had on British national
identity?
 Analyse representations of youth in one or more British films.
 Analyse representations of youth in British literature.
 Within everyone of my generation there’s an aspiring rock musician waiting
to get out. ( Tony Blair, Daily Telegraph, 27/7/97.) Discuss.
 Discuss the influence of male homosexuality and sexual divergence on pop
music and culture since the war.
 Discuss the Northern Soul style of dancing as a central feature of club
events.
 With Oasis photographed with Tony Blair over drinks at No.10- echoing
Harold Wilson’s MBE awards for the Beatles- are the 1990s just the 1960s
upside down?
 Discuss the meaning of pop in the late 1990s.
 In what way has ‘subculture’ in multi-ethnic modernity come of age?