working class. hah. all a myth.
15 year old kids 'fucking shit up' is as close as it gets...
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 5:41 AM
Subject: Skinhead!
> 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
> 3 Rooms Of Modscene Chat now added!
>
>
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