Youth Culture in Britain

Everyone is individually a part of the society in smaller groups called subcultures. When I had to come up with different subcultures I wasn't a part of them, I only had family, friends, and extracurricular activities. Then, I branched out to different groups of friends, ethnicity, race, language, religion, and many more that would characterize me specifically. Although there were many other people involved in the same cultures as me, I realized that others and myself were very unique individually because there was no one else around me who matched my description and cultures all combined together.
However for me it's still difficult to know what's it's like to be a part of the group I am not in. When at school I was first listening to other classmates' subcultures, I, once again, experienced feeling different and deviant from others especially because many of my friends were involved and attached to the punk or emo subcultures whereas I was not. I wasn't able to understand and accept how they could enjoy getting involved in such groups and their activities. But today I have a good chance to feel connected with their and many other subcultures through this coursework.
Britain was the motherland for almost all modern youth subcultures: Punks, Goths, Skinheads. British musicians played biggest role in establishing the music of the youth: Rock, Punk, Heavy Metal, Pop and Ska. And in general Britain has been defining the trends of youth culture since the beginning of the 20th century and continues to play very important role in young people's fashion, music and culture.
The culture of the youth is based on 3 major cores: inside culture (or subcultures), music and arts. That's why my course work is divided into these three units plus additional unit describing youth culture and it's history in general.
Writing this coursework I hope to learn new about most popular youth subcultures, their history, music, traditions and find out more about those subcultures which became the sings of the past.

Introduction 3
1 Youth culture and it's peculiarities 3
1.1 A brief history and major events of British youth culture 6
2 British youth subcultures 10
2.1 Teddy Boys 10
2.2 Punks 12
2.3 Mods 13
2.4 Skinheads 13
2.5 Rockers 14
3 The music of the youth 16
3.1 Punk-Rock 16
3.2 Britpop 17
3.3 Glam Rock 18
3.4 Gothic Rock 18
3.5 Dance Music 19
4 Modern tendencies in youth culture in Britain 21
4.1 Hippies 21
4.2 Goth 22
4.3 Emo 23
4.4 The problem of youth music and culture commercialization 23
5 The youth and the art 25
5.1 Graffiti 25
5.2 Northern soul 26
5.3 Tattoo 27
5.4 Piercing 28
Conclusion 30
Bibliography 31