Even If You Have to Starve
Ian Penman: Mod v. Trad, 29 August 2013
Mod: A Very British Style
by Richard Weight.
Bodley Head, 478 pp., £25, April 2013,978 0 224 07391 2 Show More
by Richard Weight.
Bodley Head, 478 pp., £25, April 2013,
“... write was a social history of Britain as seen through its subcultures, but these days books need hooks, and that’s where Mod comes in. Or rather, where Mod goes out, because rather than looking again at the rich and paradoxical details of each mod-ish stage, Weight is always pushing on to the next ‘Mod-influenced’ or ‘Mod favourite’ thing, from ... ”