Punk Rock: Nonconformists, Idealists, and Shameless Sellouts
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SummaryPerhaps one of the most controversial genres or sub-genres of music, punk rock has been flowing fresh, hot blood through the veins of teenagers and young adults since its inception in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Punk rock’s “anybody can do this” attitude strikes a resounding chord with a youth culture that is constantly being told what to do by its elders and constantly being berated for being too loud, too uncultured, and too vulgar.
Table of Contents- Punk rock tends to be made in very specific waves, responding to the issues plaguing the youth of that particular society. Socially, the movement of the 70's was one that tended to be aimed directly at the parents
- However, punk rock did not die with Sid Vicious, and the 80's proved also to be a pivotal decade for punk rock.
- In his book American Hardcore, Steven Blush says 'Black Flag became synonymous with punk violence.
- Besides hardcore punk, however, another band in the early 80's was making a different type of punk music, as well as a name for themselves
- Socially, the punk/hardcore music of the 80's was directed more at government authority figures, rather than the parental authority figures of the 70's movement
- The late eighties through mid-nineties saw another new style of punk emerge.
- Punk rock in the 90's was quite an equation of some paradox. Musically, it was a response largely to the growing popular of the grunge era.
- With the release of Bad Religion's Stranger Than Fiction on Atlantic, punk rock found itself in uncharted waters
- Today, punk rock has seen a resurgence, largely due to the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
- Socially, war always brings out the idealism of punk rock, and with negative press coverage and a growing disapproval of the war in Iraq, the social landscape is also one in which punk rock seems ready to thrive.
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