词条 | punk |
释义 | punk music also known as punk rock ![]() Borrowed from prison slang, the word punk was first used in a musical context during the early 1970s, when compilation albums such as Lenny Kaye's Nuggets (1972) created a vogue for simple mid-1960s garage rock by groups such as the Seeds, the 13th Floor Elevators, and ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians. Meanwhile, other American groups such as the MC5 (MC5, the), Iggy and the Stooges, and the New York Dolls (New York Dolls, the) had begun to use hard rock to reflect and define youthful angst. By 1975 punk had come to describe the minimalist, literary rock scene based around , the New York City club where the Patti Smith (Smith, Patti) Group and Television performed. The Ramones (Ramones, the) also performed there, and their self-titled 1976 debut album became the blueprint for punk: guitar as white noise, drums as texture, and vocals as hostile slogans. ![]() Although the Sex Pistols' 1977 chart successes (principally “God Save the Queen” and “Pretty Vacant”) made Britain the hotbed of the new youth movement, similar developments had occurred in France, Australia, and the United States (notably in Cleveland, Ohio, where the band Pere Ubu played a prominent role). Visits by British groups such as the Damned and the Sex Pistols later fueled prominent regional punk scenes in Seattle, Washington; San Francisco (the Dead Kennedys); and Los Angeles ( X and Black Flag). In the late 1970s, however, punk in the United States was eclipsed by disco and went underground in movements such as hardcore, which flourished from the early to mid-1980s and further accelerated punk's breakneck tempo. Punk's full impact came only after the success of Nirvana in 1991, coinciding with the ascendance of Generation X—a new, disaffected generation born in the 1960s, many members of which identified with punk's charged, often contradictory mix of intelligence, simplicity, anger, and powerlessness. Additional Reading Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (1989), analyzes the impact of punk music. Jon Savage, England's Dreaming (1991), covers the Sex Pistols and the origins of punk music. John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, and Kent Zimmerman, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (1994), presents the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten's varied views on many topics, including punk. |
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