īy 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia. The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term " moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. ĭuring the early to mid-1960s, as mod grew and spread throughout the UK, certain elements of the mod scene became engaged in well-publicised clashes with members of a rival subculture: rockers. The original mod scene was associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing at clubs. In the mid-1960s, the subculture listened to power pop rock groups with mod following, such as The Who and The Small Faces, after the peak Mod era. Įlements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits) music (including soul, rhythm and blues, ska, jazz, and later splintering off into freakbeat) and motor scooters (usually Lambretta or Vespa). Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz.
Mod is a subculture that began in London and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries, and continues today on a smaller scale. Two mid-1960s mods on a customised Lambretta scooter
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