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The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom, and the DIY ethics, the culture originated from punk rock.
An attitude common in the punk subculture is the opposition to selling out, which refers to abandoning of one's values and/or a change in musical style toward pop (e.g. electropop) and embracing mainstream culture or more radio-friendly rock (e.g. pop rock) in exchange for wealth, status, or power.
A number of philosophical and artistic movements were influences on and precursors to the punk movement. The most overt is anarchism, especially its artistic inceptions.The cultural critique and strategies for revolutionary action offered by the Situationist International in the 1950s and 1960s were an influence on the vanguard of the British punk movement, particularly the Sex Pistols.
By the 1990s, punk rock was sufficiently ingrained in Western culture that punk trappings were often used to market highly commercial bands as "rebels". Marketers capitalized on the style and hipness of punk rock to such an extent that a 1993 ad campaign for an automobile, the Subaru Impreza , claimed that the car was "like punk rock".
A punk wearing a customized blazer, as was popular in the early punk scene. Punk rock was an intentional rebuttal of the perceived excess and pretension found in mainstream music (or even mainstream culture as a whole), and early punk artists' fashion was defiantly anti-materialistic.
Because punk culture is more than just the music, especially in the UK, a tour of punk museums must include a stop at the Victoria & Albert in South Kensington, London, the world’s largest ...
Glenn Danzig is a punk rock icon. The Misfits were, are, and always will be punk rock legends. But that doesn't prevent him from saying some spectacularly dumb things from time to time. In an ...
Blink-192 may have been born out of a Southern California skate punk scene in 1992, but it was seven years later, with Travis Barker settling in on drums behind co-founder Mark Hoppus (bass and ...