SKINHEAD

Source Public skinhead concert. The skinheads emerged in England in the 1960's, the descendants of the mod movement that emerged in the UK in 1958. The mods were middle-class youth, who liked fancy clothes, the scooters and street fights. Also by that time in Jamaica, youth gangs were called rude-boys, with tastes similar to those of the mods. These rude-boy reggae and rocksteady heard. In 1962, with the independence of the island, many Jamaicans emigrated to England and took their music and rude-boy aesthetics with them. The mods were attracted to Jamaican music and the new opportunities for neighbors just as addicted to them and fights began to frequent the clubs that passed. Combining their music came the second wave of Ska. In the mid 1960's hippie movement emerged and flower-power that, contrary to the labor movement began among the richer classes. The mods kept listening black music, especially ska and rocksteady's nascent, and radicalized their attitude, adopting an aesthetic and a more aggressive (for what they called hard-mods). They began to wear more practical clothing and identified with the working class, work boots, suspenders, etc.. In addition it was observed a tendency to cut his hair shorter than before (without actually rapárselo) to differentiate themselves from the hippies. Many of these aesthetic characteristics were adopted from the rude boys of Jamaica, as the act of using or carrying straps rolled up pants (custom in Jamaica because of what was then expensive pants, youth scarce resources). In these groups of hard-mods are starting to see some young men with cropped hair and heavy boots that are several names (noheads, baldheads, cropheads, suedeheads), until 1969 known as skinheads definitely. Like the old mods, skinheads continued listening to the music of the rude-boys (so much so that when they did the Jamaican reggae in Britain started calling it "skinhead reggae"). Their clothing was more "proletarian", consisting of jackets bulging or "bombers" (Although these appeared later), or polo shirts, suspenders, jeans and boots, leaving the costumes for the weekend. In addition, motivated by the world soccer championship won by England, many skinheads became hooligans. What united skinheads was his taste for the same type of music and clothing, as well as football and violence. Usually they also shared certain values, like the cult of courage and camaraderie and pride in belonging to the working class. This pride was reflected in an ethics (discipline and hard work). It was not a political, as some believe, but a way of life.