Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz

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When I was younger, I didn't quite understand it. What was meant by 'clean living'? Being drug-free? Being hygienically clean? Being unsloppy? Well, at the young age I was at, I chose to interpret it as being clean (as in taking showers), not sloppy, and fastidious. And I saw the 'difficult circumstances' in a financial sense.

All anthologies, by their nature, are retrospective. It seems to me that in this collection you are deliberately drawing some form of line.

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Visceral and always entertaining, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time. Hatherley is, to paraphrase his own nod to writer Mike Davis, another “rare dissenter from the church of St Jane”, who Davis described as “the Mother Teresa of urbanism”. The point of the essay is not to trash Jacobs, but rather to warn us against an uncritical reading of her work. a b Lobenthal, J. "Psychedelic Fashion." Love to Know. "Psychedelic Fashion". Archived from the original on 17 March 2015 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. Paul Jobling and David Crowley argued that the definition of mod can be difficult to pin down, because throughout the subculture's original era, it was "prone to continuous reinvention." [10] They claimed that since the mod scene was so pluralist, the word mod was an umbrella term that covered several distinct sub-scenes. Terry Rawlings argued that mods are difficult to define because the subculture started out as a "mysterious semi-secret world", which the Who's manager Peter Meaden summarised as "clean living under difficult circumstances." [11] History 1958–1969 [ edit ] This essay was curated by The Subcultures Network, which was formed in 2011 to facilitate research on youth cultures and social change, and commissioned as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project to build the online Museum of Youth Culture. Being developed by YOUTH CLUB, the Museum of Youth Culture is a new destination dedicated to celebrating 100 years of youth culture history through photographs, ephemera and stories.

a b c d Grossman, Henry; Spencer, Terrance; Saton, Ernest (13 May 1966). "Revolution in Men's Clothes: Mod Fashions from Britain are Making a Smash in the U.S." Life. pp.82–88. Akin to being in the company of someone with plenty of entertaining tales to tell.... the comradery and spirit of like-minded souls is inspiring.' - Paul Ritchie, Shindig! Magazine Marshall, George, Spirit of '69 – A Skinhead Bible (Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing, 1991) ISBN 1-898927-10-3Hall and Jefferson argued that the presentable image of female mod fashions meant it was easier for young mod women to integrate with the non-subculture aspects of their lives (home, school and work) than for members of other subcultures. [75] The emphasis on clothing and a stylised look for women demonstrated the "same fussiness for detail in clothes" as their male mod counterparts. [75] a b Weight, Richard (26 March 2013). "How Mod Became the Mainstream". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017 . Retrieved 29 September 2017. A city ashamed of itself is a typical metaphor for Hatherley, who tends to personalise places by assigning them human faces and souls. I remember how baffled I was several years ago on discovering that Hatherley, who grew up in a family of devoted Labour party supporters, described himself repeatedly (see his Wikipedia entry) as a confirmed socialist and even a communist, for I would safely qualify most of his writing as extremely pro-democracy, anti-totalitarian and hence – on my scale of values – rabidly anti-communist!

Eddie is always good value as a writer, and if you match that with a life ‘lived’, this is likely to be a book to have when it does land. I’m pretty sure Eddie is still putting the finishing touches to this, but with a fairly long lead time, I’m sure everything will be ready to go for the official publication date of 7th April 2023. I told you it was a while off. His reading teases out the complexities and contradictions of Jacob’s approach to the city, warmly welcoming her return to the street while warning against the complicity of her work with the neo-liberal turn against welfare-state intervention to improve the lives of the many. Dave Haslam, Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues, London: Simon & Schuster, 2015, ISBN 9780857206992. Modernism’s most prolific and persuasive contemporary advocate … One of the joys of Hatherley’s writing is that he so often focuses on the unusual and eccentric.”A charismatic storyteller, witty and unpretentious, he is at once an engaging protagonist and an indisputable authority, giving a live-wire, visceral perspective on mod life in that short flash of time. He manages to create a welcoming space in this rather exclusive world while never losing his formidable edge as a narrator’– The Big Issue