Punk-Rock

Punk rock – a genre of rock music which arose in the mid-1970s in the U.S. and, later, in the UK. In punk rock combined social protest and opposition to the then musical forms of rock: a deliberately cultivated and primitive game pert early rock and roll. For tracks of punk rock in general, characterized by fast-paced, short duration of time, a simple accompaniment, often cheeky and aggressive style of singing. The texts are imbued with nihilism and the social and political themes. In each type of punk rock has its own individual biases.

Punk rock is inextricably linked with the punk subculture that is characterized by printsypy DIY, outrageous, bullying and general nonconformity. Meaning that investing early punk rock bands in their genre, was the desire to play, dominating over the skill to play, thanks to this definition, formed a heterogeneous early American punk scene between primitive and superficial Ramones to the complex and experimental Television. Such an approach of punk rock become the main range of subcultures – punk, DIY, fanzines culture, and later – straight edge. In 1976-1977, the punk rock begins emerge in the UK, more controversial and politicized form, thanks to this genre in 1977 became one of the most remarkable phenomena in rock music Great Britain. Over time, punk rock has generated a lot of species. The largest of them are more melodic and lightweight pop-punk, hardcore and aggressive Oi!, And combination with other genres – ska-punk and became a separate major post-punk genre.

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