A raggare in his ideal environment, with a beer, on the bonnet of a 1960s car (photo taken during Power Big Meet in 2005).
 Two raggare (photo taken during Power Big Meet in 2005).
 When no American fintails are available, raggare are sometimes forced to improvise, like using a Mercedes.
A lot of raggare on the roof a 1960s car during Power Big Meet in 2005 Raggare (a Swedish word roughly corresponding to the English term "pick-up artist", i.e., a person seeking sexual contact with someone) is a subculture found mostly in Sweden and parts of Norway and Finland, mostly in rural environments and smaller villages. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 268 KB) A 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle 13569. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 268 KB) A 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle 13569. ...
Power Big Meet is a large car show in Västerås, Sweden for American cars (especially those from the 1950s and 1960s). ...
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Cadillac Eldorado 1959 - detail I took this picture myself with a Minolta XG-1 and a 28mm f/2. ...
Cadillac Eldorado 1959 - detail I took this picture myself with a Minolta XG-1 and a 28mm f/2. ...
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Raggare have existed since the 1950s and haven't changed much since then. Their culture is based on American popular culture of the 1950s, and typically centres on a "rebel" image. James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause and American Graffiti are a popular sources of influence. The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ...
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Natalie Wood and James Dean in a screenshot from Rebel Without a Cause. ...
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Cars are very important to raggare; they like large U.S. cars from the 1950s, although any large American V8-powered car will do. If one is not available some substitutes are used; for instance, the Volvo Amazon, fintail Mercedes, or some other car with U.S. styling, but never a Japanese car. If that too fails, an older Volvo may be used (usually in the 200-series). The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. ...
A Saab 96 (left) and a Volvo Amazon (right) line up to race. ...
The Fintail (German: Heckflosse) was a series of luxury cars produced by Mercedes-Benz from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. ...
AB Volvo (or Aktiebolaget Volvo) is a world-leading Swedish manufacturer of commercial vehicles, trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and financial services. ...
The music of choice is rockabilly. The clothes and hairstyle are that of 1950s rockabilly. Blue jeans, cowboy boots, white t-shirts, sometimes with print (also used to store a pack of cigarettes by folding the sleeve), leather or denim jacket. The hair is styled using Brylcreem or some other pomade. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
Rockabilly is one of the earliest and most important styles of rock n’ roll music to emerge during the 1950s. ...
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One of the most popular artists among raggare is Eddie Meduza. Although he performed songs against punks, such as "Punkdjävlar!" ("Punk bastards!") and "Punkar'n och raggar'n" ("The punk and the raggare"), many punk rockers do listen to him. In 2005 a Swedish punk label Ägg Tapes & Records released a CD with various bands doing covers of Meduza's songs. Eddie Meduza (real name Errol Leonard Norstedt) (June 17, 1948–January 16, 2002) was a Swedish composer and musician working mainly in the rockabilly genre. ...
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ...
Raggare often use the confederate flag. The following are the flags used by the short-lived Confederate States of America. ...
Raggare history
When raggare first appeared, they caused a moral panic with concerns about the use of alcohol, violence, high-speed driving, and having sex in the back seat. These concerns usually had little merit and most raggare were actually quite peaceful. The film Raggare! covered the issue in 1959. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Social mania. ...
Later, raggare often got into fights with hippies and punks, something described in the punk rock song "Raggare Is a Bunch of Motherfuckers" by Rude Kids (and later re-recorded by Turbonegro). When The Sex Pistols played in Sweden on July 28, 1977, a group of raggare waited outside and cornered some young girls who came out from the show. The girls had safety pins through their cheeks, and the raggare ripped them right out their faces. The band was upstairs drinking beer when they heard about it. Sid Vicious wanted to go down and fight, and someone else suggested they should get the limousine and run them over. In the end, the gig promoter called the police. Nowadays the hostility between Raggare and other subcultures is much lower. Singer at contemporary Russian Rainbow gathering Hippie, occasionally spelled hippy, refers to a subgroup of the 1960s and early 1970s counterculture that began in the United States, becoming an established social group by 1965 before declining in the mid 1970s. ...
Turbonegro (Turboneger in Norway) is a Norwegian band that combines heavy metal, rock and punk music into a non-politically-correct version of punk (which has been described by the band as deathpunk). // Turbonegro first came together in Oslo, Norway during the winter of 1988/89. ...
The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk band, formed in London in 1975. ...
A safety pin. ...
John Simon Ritchie (May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician and bass player of the Sex Pistols. ...
Raggare today No longer considered a menace to society, the raggare subculture lives on in Sweden, but in many ways it is still viewed in a negative light. Because of its mostly rural roots, retro-aesthetics, and unusual (for Swedes) pro-American stance, raggare are often (in Urban areas and in pop-culture) seen as uneducated white trash with poor taste and a low-brow attitude towards sex. This is how they are normally depicted on film and television, with the most famous modern example being the cult-characters "Ronny & Ragge", a pair of complete idiots who cruise around in a beat-up Ford Taunus. There are several gatherings for raggare around Sweden. The Power Big Meet is the most famous, and is also the biggest car show in the world. An urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ...
White Trash is an American ethnic slur with a social class component. ...
1980 Ford Cortina MkV Ford Taunus was a car sold by Ford in Germany. ...
Power Big Meet is a large car show in Västerås, Sweden for American cars (especially those from the 1950s and 1960s). ...
See also For other uses of the term, see Greaser This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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The Teddy boy youth culture first emerged in Britain (starting in London, but rapidly spreading across the country) during the early 1950s, and soon after became strongly associated with American rock and roll music of the period. ...
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The Mods and the Rockers were two British youth movements of the early 1960s. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Outlaw motorcycle club. ...
The concept of an outlaw motorcycle club came about after an incident in Hollister, CA over the July 4th weekend. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
Bousouzoku (暴走族) (literally speeding tribe, known also as kamikaze bikers) is a Japanese subculture very similar to car clubs: gangs of young men who share a common interest in designing (often law-breaking) modifications to cars and motorcycles. ...
Kustom Kulture is an all-encompassing term used to describe the artwork, the vehicles, the hairstyles, and the fashions of those who drove and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today. ...
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External links - Category at ODP
- Cultural Imperialism or Hyper-Americanization - Swedish raggare and Chicano Lowriders - article by Scott Holmquist
- Raggare - The Movie
- Photos from Power Big Meet by Frank Aschberg
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