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#51 2010-02-15 05:55:50

Alex Roest
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Re: Mod Bless America!

 

#52 2010-02-15 06:11:38

Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Mod Bless America!


“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

 

#53 2010-02-15 06:31:25

The Laird of Enfield
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#54 2010-02-15 06:47:31

Alex Roest
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Re: Mod Bless America!

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#55 2010-02-15 07:02:07

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#56 2010-02-15 07:21:56

Alex Roest
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#57 2010-02-15 08:34:20

Taylor McIntyre
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#58 2010-02-15 11:12:29

Staceyboy
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#59 2010-02-15 11:21:50

Alex Roest
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Re: Mod Bless America!

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#60 2010-02-15 14:25:16

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Re: Mod Bless America!

Thing to bear in mind with Bushell's text is that it's very London-centric and also possibly overstates the punk period: not surprising as these were Gary Bushell's direct area of personal experience.

In the North of England a significant minority never really abandoned Mod as was known in the mid-60s: Northern Soul and scootering saw to that. To this constituency the Jam/Quadrophenia-generated hype of the late 70s was seen as a mixture of an irrelevance and a joke.

 

#61 2010-02-16 03:19:06

Just Jim
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#62 2010-02-16 07:09:52

The Laird of Enfield
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#63 2010-02-16 07:26:34

lockerloop
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Re: Mod Bless America!

I'd say that Ivy League as an element in youth cult style, be in mod/Rockabilly/whatever, was pretty much nationwide. In fact to be more precise it was more Americana which was the thing. Ivy League was only part of it as for most it was just too subtle. The Northern Soul scene had a thing about Americana - obviously, considering the music, and the rest kind of came with it. But it wasn't at all elegant. I knew a guy from Stoke who wore the whole Ivy harrington/501s/proper wing-tips/OCBD combo in the mid 80s, but he had no style. It was all a bit lumpen. And Zip Code in Manchester was very much a small and inferior (and rather short-lived in my memory) version of Flip. No, the difference between London and the rest of the UK is this - London had the cultural contact with the original source (as a Liverpudlian I have to say I think the Cunard Yanks thing is much overplayed and it certainly left no lasting legacy amongst any of the good folk of that fine, fiesty but shockingly badly dressed city), and this left a mark on a range of people, not just kids dressing up, but musicians, designers, artists, architects, cab drivers, the whole spectrum. These are the people who shopped at Austins, The Ivy Shop, Squire etc etc, and many of these people are still in love with it. In London the style goes deep, it talks to a lot of people. Elsewhere in the UK we are all invisible.

L.L.

 

#64 2010-02-16 07:35:34

Moose Maclennan
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#65 2010-02-16 07:45:36

Alex Roest
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#66 2010-02-16 07:56:16

Chris_H
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#67 2010-02-16 08:24:16

Alex Roest
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Re: Mod Bless America!

^I'd appreciate it if you'd both be willing to expand on that aspect please, gentlemen....

 

#68 2010-02-16 08:41:18

Hard Bop Hank
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From: land of a 1000 dances
Posts: 4923

Re: Mod Bless America!


“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

 

#69 2010-02-16 11:33:44

Taylor McIntyre
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