Hello,
The one thing that this list does provide is an insight into the Mod scene
around the world, for better or worse.
However, there`s one thing that has puzzled me a lot, perhaps because I`m
not party to it.
There seems to have been a lot of self professed "skins" on this list over
the past months. Now I`m not having a go, and I`m sure someone could post
some long monologue about how the skinhead movement came out of Mod etc etc,
and that I don`t deny (and I think we`ve all heard it 1000 times). However,
the skinhead scene seems to be more rooted in the UK model circa late 70`s
than the original one. And indeed the musical tastes too.
Ans also, in the UK, skinhead was very much a working class movement,
whereas the impression I get from the current US model is middle class
teens. I picture David Beckham in a Ben Sherman and Docs! Can someone
explain how the mod and skinhead scenes combine in the US, and if my
preconceptions are correct?
David W.
Northern Mods Website and Mailing List
http://www.modculture.com
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