The Fred Perry Subculture Films - Don Letts

Reasoning

I saw the above video in a lecture last year and remembered a particular line about a mod making one of the commentators feel small, and thought this would be a good place to look for information about the origins of modernism. The link to where I found it is here.

What I Gained

The second of the chapters, 'This Is A Modern World' was the one I was interested in watching, and starts about 11 minutes into the video. Some points it raised were:

1. Modernism started out as trying to be stylish, not trying to be transparent.
2. Often living like a mod is making the best out of bad circumstances.
3. The last truly definable subculture was BritPop, which even then, borrowed heavily from previous ones, most notably modernism.

Potentially useful quotes:

Next Steps

I've not actually looked at the First Things First Manifesto yet, so doing some analysis of that would definitely be useful.