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|title=MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement

|author=Richard Weight

|publisher=Vintage

|date=January 2015

|website=http://www.richardweight.com/

|summary=A comprehensive account of 'the Modernists', Britain's most influential youth cult, and with its coverage of fashion and style from the 1950s to the present day, more wide-ranging than the main title might suggest

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''Mod'' is arguably a rather-overused term. First of all, there is the matter of establishing a precise definition. ''Modernism'', which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as the working-class movement of a newly affluent nation. Once the age of immediate post-war austerity was gone, the cult of a youth keen to shake off the drab conformity of life in 1950s Britain took hold. It was more than anything else an amalgam of American music and European fashions, beginning as a popular cult and gradually becoming a mainstream culture.