Punk History

Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement that began about 1975 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash. The term is also used to describe subsequent music scenes that share key characteristics with those first-generation "punks." The term is sometimes also applied to the fashions or the irreverent "DIY" ("do it yourself") attitude associated with this musical movement.

UK Punks, circa 1986

Contents

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• 1 Origins

• 2 The Emergence of Punk Rock

• 3 Musical Style and Structure

• 4 Punk attitudes and fashion

• 5 Post-1970s punk

• 6 See also

o 6.1 Related genres

• 7 Sound samples

• 8 References

• 9 Notes

• 10 External links

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Origins

The phrase "punk rock" (from "punk", meaning worthless or disrespectful, often applied to a street hustler or a young person with a negative attitude towards authority; also meaning a beginner or novice [1]) was originally applied to the untutored guitar-and-vocals-based rock and roll of United States bands of the mid-1960s such as The Standells, The Sonics, and The Seeds, bands that now are more often categorized as "garage rock".

The term was coined by rock critic Dave Marsh, who used it to describe the music of ? and the Mysterians in the May 1971 issue of Creem magazine №, and it was adopted by many rock music journalists in the early 1970s. For example, in the liner notes of the 1972 anthology album Nuggets, critic and guitarist Lenny Kaye uses the term "punk-rock" to refer to the Sixties "garage rock" groups, as well as some of the darker and