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Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that emerged in the mid-1970s. Preceded by a variety of protopunk music of the 1960s and early 1970s, punk rock developed between 1974 and 1977 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where groups such as the Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash […]

The first wave of punk aimed to be aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast and sentimentality of early 1970s rock. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, “In its initial form, a lot of [1960s] stuff was innovative and exciting. Unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes […]

Preceding the mid-1970s, punk, a centuries-old word of obscure etymology, was commonly used to describe “a young male hustler, a gangster, a hoodlum, or a ruffian”. As Legs McNeil explains, “On TV, if you watched cop shows, Kojak, Baretta, when the cops finally catch the mass murderer, they’d say, ‘you dirty Punk.’ It was what […]

 
The origins of New York’s punk scene can be traced back to such sources as late 1960s trash culture and an early 1970s underground rock movement centered around the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, where the New York Dolls performed. In 1974, the members of a band from Forest Hills, Queens, adopted a common […]

Hardcore punk, characterized by fast, aggressive beats and often politically aware lyrics, developed in the United States in the late 1970s. According to author Steven Blush, “Hardcore comes from the bleak suburbs of America. Parents moved their kids out of the cities to these horrible suburbs to save them from the ‘reality’ of the cities […]