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A.E Manning - "Moral panic burns bright but short".

Cult

Bodgie and Widgies

Punishments Proposed

REACTION OF AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY...

Manual Labour

Confusion

Violent

Moral Panic

Corporal Punishment

Viewed as...

Hyperbolic Newspaper headlines

BODGIE AND WIDGIE FASHIONS...

[American Influenced]

Post WWII Australia...

Styles, Hobbies, Attitudes and Values of Bodgies and Widgies DISCRIMINATED

BODGIES

WIDGIES

Sexually Immoral

Drape Suits, Pegged Trousers & Winklepicker Shoes

Loose 3/4 Sleeved Blouses

Economic Transformation

Bill Haley - "You only need a couple of teenagers to give the whole lot a bad name".

Represented Social Criticism

Rolled up Jeans

Tight Black skirts

Leather Jackets, Denim Jeans, Studded Belts & Boots

KEY EVENTS...

Greased Ducktails

Short Hair

Liberation of Youth

Sydney Rock 'n' Roll Riot

Brisbane Rock 'n' Roll Riot

Emergence of Distinct Youth Subcultures

Social Change

Bodgies and Widgies

November 20 1956

November 22 1956

Jiving in Albert Street

OBSESSIONS...

‘one youth smashed a bottle on a police car’

Changing values of the new generation.

Rock 'n' Roll

Music

“Wild dancing in the street took place, with those defiantly dancing outside police headquarters charged with offensive and indecent behaviour”

‘a policeman was hit on the head by a stone’

Dancing

VALUES AND BELIEFS OF THE BODGIES AND WIDGIES...

Early Australian Counterculture

WHAT CAUSED THE BODGIE-WIDGIE SUBCULTURE?

IMPACTS OF THE BODGIES & WIDGIES...

Short Term

Long Term

Rebelled against what was 'accepted'.

WHAT WAS A BODGIE?

New Young Adult Target Market

Division of Generations

Sex, Drugs and Drinking

American Influence:

  • Fashion
  • Films
  • Music

Appearance highly valued

‘a male youth, distinguished by his conformity to certain fashions of dress and larrikin behaviour’

Reasonably Significant -

Struggling for liberation

Rock 'n' Roll

Very Significant -

Defined Short Chapter of Australian History

Continuation - $5000 per teenager/ year

Australia's First Encounter

Elvis Presley - King of rock 'n' roll

fAKE AMERICANS

Australia's own artists...

Johnny O'Keefe

Col Joye

Billy Haley - 'Rock around the Clock'

WHEN DID THE SUBCULTURE BEGIN TO FADE?

THE FIRST BODGIES

'The Blackboard Jungle'

No Mass Media Attention

1959

Late 1940s

Promoted Promiscuity, Drug Use & Rebellion

Australian Ex-WWII sailors, impersonating American comrades

Modification of rock 'n' roll

Blamed Parents

'Young Ones'

Unsuccessful Futures

Explicit Police Actions

Parental Alcohol Consumption

MAINSTREAM

Widgies Female Counterpart.

Lack of discipline

Joined youth gangs for self-esteem

Prominent in mid - 1950s.

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