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Punk [pʌŋk]
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the
United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and
other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands
eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands created
fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down
instrumentation, and often political.
Throughout punk rock history, technical accessibility and a DIY spirit have been
prized. In the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to
what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and
technological demands of many mainstream rock bands.
Robert Christgau says that it was also a subculture that rejected the political
idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth. Patti Smith, in
contrast, suggests in the documentary 25 Years of Punk that the hippies and
the punk rockers were linked by a common anti-establishment mentality.