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,
“... of scooter-borne rock fans, draped in the ambiguous insignia of RAF targets and Union Jacks. What Richard Weight calls the ‘very British style’ of Mod found its initial foothold in late 1950s Soho with the arrival of the jazz ‘modernists’, who defined themselves in strict opposition to the reigning gatekeepers of Trad. Modernists were wilfully ... ”