Rockers

British youth subculture in the sixties and early seventies. In contrast to the Mods, who tried to stand for something new (modern), the rivaling Rockers were in certain respects more conservative, as they were more "class bound" and had "lower paid, less skilled occupations", thus representing "an affirmation of 'traditional' working-class liefestyles" (Osgerby, p.42)

Rockers can be considered as the successors of the Teddy Boys, though their look was different. The Rockers bore certain resemblances to American motorcycle gangs, often driving heavy Triumph motorcycles and wearing black leather (Osgerby, p. 42). Being themselves "overtly masculine" (Hebdige, p. 52) the Rockers thought of the Mods as being effeminate snobs (Osgerby, p.42), subculturelist.com) as the latter, from the Rockers' point of view, cared too much for fashion.

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Though the Rockers and the Mods were rivaling groups it was mainly through representations of the media that drew attention to the vandalism and violence when those two groups clashed together in Brighton on Whitsun in 1964 and brought about a moral panic obout British youth in Britain (Cohen, p.10f, p. 16)

Sources:

Bill Osgerby: "Youth and Consumption in Post-War Britain" in: Youth in Britain since 1945

http://subcultureslist.com/mods-and-rockers/

https://infodocks.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/stanley_cohen_folk_devils_and_moral_panics.pdf