Dick Hebdige: subculture the meaning of style.

Dick Hebdige: Subculture The meaning of style - Click on the link to the left to go to the page.

"Member of a culture often subject their relationship through a distinctive and symbolic use of style, which includes fashion, music and mannerisms" Dick Hebdige (1979).

Looking at the subculture of "Rocker"

Looking at the typical fashions of a rocker there is a picture to the right of a typical rocker. The Hair of a rocker as you can see is quite long with quite large sideburns, with it being quite curly. They tend to wear shirts in which are quite bland usually consisting of a dull grey or white. The on top of the shirt they will then have a leather jacket which is usually quite thick and have a lot of buttons and pockets, as well as the buttons an pockets they also have patterns on the shoulders which seems to occur quite often when looking at rockers. Going down onto the bottom half the rockers tend to wear jeans in which are quite dar as well such as grey or black and quite neat. Lastly the shoes that they tend to wear also is simple leather shoes which is also quite smart.


Some of the mannerisms into the rockers in which they had were things such as Rockers bought standard factory-made motorcycles and stripped them down, tuning them up and modifying them to appear like racing bikes. Their bikes were not merely transport, but were used as an object of intimidation and masculinity projecting them uneasily close to death. 

The music that a rocker listens to is very obvious as it is in the name, Rockers are mainly associated with Rock music. Music was a major influence on most of the actions and features of a rocker, they're events that they organised based very much around rock were called "Piss ups" and these became very popular throughout Europe and America. The music of rock spread very quickly throughout the world and is still a popular genre.