…more than just a music. a people, a scene, a culture, and a circuit through which information and...
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…more than just a music. A people, a scene, a culture, and a circuit through which information
and ideas travel…
•Politics & DIY
Anarchy
•Genres - Movements
•Music
•Social Meaning
•History
•Fashion/Style
POLITICSPunk Rock Politics vary or deviate, but nearly ALL stress the ideas of…
ACTIVISM – involvement in the government, it makes NO sense to whine about the government when you take no part in it.
DIY – or better known as Do It Yourself. “Some kids start a band, others start a zine…”- Anti-Flag. DIY withholds the idea that we are capable of producing our own items without the use of systems, specialists, etc. DIY is how bands get started.
UNITY – all work together to a greater ends. “Unity, as one stand together”- Operation Ivy.
It's in the paper every dayYou see it in the headlines and you feel so sick
Chorus
I don't want to die I don't want to killWe are all human It's time to prove it
This is a plea for peace (world peace)To the oppressors of the world (and to…)To the leaders of nations, Corporate profit takers,To the every day citizenGreed, envy, fear, hate- the competition has to stop!When you see someone down - now is the time to pick `em upSet our difference aside and never look back!
*Repeat Chorus*
Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Killing? Dying? Hatred?Violence?
*Excerpts from "I Have a Dream"
by Dr. Martin Luther King*
As another life leaves this world, This world so full of hate but short, Short on compassion, short on humanity. Asking myself in vain, shaken by the shock do we even have a chance?
“…create a society run and controlled by those who actually produce the wealth of the world. We believe that it is possible to live without government and to put in its place councils and assemblies where the "ordinary people" can decide what happens to this wealth. We believe in the equality of all and that maximum solidarity is needed between workers and other oppressed groups if we are to defeat those who live off our sweat. Anarchists are against chaos…”-Workers Solidarity Movement.
"If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses." --- Louis Lecoin, Anarchist.
Anarchism people voluntarily cooperate to meet everyone's needsFree agreements between groups to satisfy needs and aspirationswithout bosses or rulers – no government, law, authority. without sacrificing individual liberties. Anarchists are opposed to chaos.
“A Strong People do not need a strong Government”-Darren Kramer, Impact Press
The
Media
School
War
Environment
“It’s the Patriotic Duty of citizens to challenge illegal laws…”- Tom Crumpacker, Impact Zine
HARDCORE
MODERN PUNK
Hardcore music is often defined by screaming vocals, fast in your face music not quite punk, not quite anything else but hardcore.
Vision of Disorder
BLOOD FOR BLOOD
Mod Punk abandoned the oldskool sound, to a newer, fresher sound for a brand new generation of punk rock kids.
Fat Mike, NOFXDead
Kennedys
Includes the older stuff that started it all, has a lot more of a raw sound. In relation with Oi and Street Punk.
Emo stands for Emotional. The music is "emotionally-charged punk rock." A lot of times it is said to be a post-punk form of music. Lyrics tend to be poetic, even whiney at times.
Buddy HollyThe Get Up Kids
• First originated in the 50's in Jamaica • categorized into three different "waves." • Jamaica spread to the UK and the US. • often times combined with punk (skunk) • Drums, bass, rhythm guitar, and HORNS are the elements that make up Ska.
The Mighty,
Mighty Boss Tones
Pop punk is basically punk rock but a lot slower and more similar to pop. Vocals are usually weaker and melodic.
MXPX
There are many other styles of music that do not fit in the above categories.
sexism
SXE = No drugs, No Alcohol, No promiscuous sex
Consume No Animal Products
No Meat or fish, No Gelatin, diff. categories
Anti-Racist Action (ARA)• “Network of regular people working together to decrease racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and the unfairness often suffered by the disabled, youngest, oldest, and poorest of our people.”- The ARA
Police Brutality per 100,000 People
93%
6% 1%
US
UK
France
“852 people have been killed by cops since 1990, 797 of those people were shot to death. Guns don’t kill people. Cops kill people.”
Myth: Getting tough on crime reduces crime.
Fact: States with the toughest law enforcement have the most crime
Actual Occurrence at Binghamton University. Kid was handing out voting material.
Venues Place where shows are held
The “scene” Kids who attend shows
Flyers Propaganda, advertisement
Bands Small tours, DIY
Record Labels
Indie, non-corporate
Underground Shows
Mosh Pit Collection of artists who practice the art of slam dancing
Fallen Moshers Might get trampled, causing others to trip and fall. Benefits everyone to aid them in getting up.
Punks created
Slam dancing
They had in mind – releasing aggression while enjoying the music.
Objective of slam dancing
To dance, make physical contact, and bounce off others without hurting anyone
Objective of the Mosh Pit
To create an atmosphere which fosters unrestricted self-expression and interaction with live music.
Mosh Pit
Underground sources of media – information, ideas, and knowledge are spread.
Can be in form of newspapers, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, or whatever the imagination can construe.
Shortened from magazine
Contain art work, opinions, articles, reviews, cartoons, etc.
Are usually very entertaining.
Song: AUTOMATIC
“This was our first video we ever did and pretty much is just equal parts of two shows. The first was a free show we put on in downtown Gainesville for the release of Losing Streak. The second was for a cable show outta Chicago called JBTV. Check out the guy in the Winnie the Pooh costume, and I think the only "train spanking" on video, weird.”- LTJ
Punk bands create music videos for fun and to get their music out
Little to no restrictions are placed on music videos. Some may be edited or altered for television viewing.
MTV finds a majority of the most recent favorite punk bands’ videos and airs them. Some bands do not allow this.
Don’t let them buy you, they cant sell you your own style. Punk is about individuality, not buying a pyramid belt, pair of dickies, and chuck taylors to become ‘punk’. If that made you punk, then anyone and everyone could be ‘punk’…
Punk As a Label: “You can listen to anything but don’t label anything with spiked hair, punk, and don’t label anything with a break down, hardcore, because it’s not. No matter how the mainstream sees it, it will always be more. It will always be something they can not touch because it lives in our hearts and not in our wallets.”– Ryan, Punks Before Profits
Self-Invention
Anti-Consumer
-ism
FreeSpeech
Equality
Individual-ity
Social Meaning
Gender, Age, Race, Sexuality
DIY – no specialists or systems
Mainly for the unheard
Create and develop as a person
Express yourself
-Loudly aggressive, disrespectful, and violent.
- Individual struggle for attention “you only look/act like that because you need attention.”
- Do not think before act, self-absorbed – do not think of others before acting.
- like to break things, destroy
-Support and believe in chaos
Jock core
“Punk ain't no religious cult, Punk means thinking for yourself. You ain't hardcore cause you spike your hair when a jock still lives inside your head!” – The Dead Kennedys
No TRUE punks fit this stereotype.
The New York Dolls (Mercury, 1973) “Coated in lipstick and powder, looking like drag queens after a particularly hard night out…”
The Ramones “It’s Alive” 1973. Part of The Velvet Underground and CBGBs bands.
The Sex Pistols, started in the UK. Some believe began the “punk” movement.
“Unlike any other musical genre, Punk rock was started as a deliberate reaction to the mass commercialism of music. In the year 2000, it's common to see someone "being A punk," rather than seeing someone "be punk.“
In the late 60's and early 70's, the music industry rang eerily familiar in its method of promoting trends over music. The public was being spoon-fed music that corporations simply intended to make a profit from. The backlash to this came to be known internationally as Punk rock.
In New York, around the early 1970's, young, virtually unknown artists like Patti Smith, the Velvet Underground, and the Dolls of New York, changed later to New York Dolls, brought about a new style of "alternative-bohemian“ entertainment, rooted in a "do-it-yourself" attitude. Short, frenetic songs, aggressive, sometimes confrontational stage presence, and angry messages against consumerism hit the stages at venues like New York's CBGB's, starting the movement that would be known as punk rock.
Most importantly of all, punk's legacy lies in its introduction of self- employment and activism. It illustrated that anyone can do it themselves, without reliance on the commercial media or the luxury of having financial abundance. Against the backdrop of mass consumer conformity, the punk rock movement made a statement of individuality that was heard worldwide.” – By Charles Oh
Mohawk DOWN
The haircut synonymous with punk rock.
It has had a long and varied history, moving from its origin as a ceremonial hairstyle for the Native American Iroquois tribe of Mohawk.
Originally, it represented an awareness and anger towards the existence of povety (and desire for change) by punk rockers.
It also stands as a symbol of defiance against oppression and in support of the natives. (Native Americans or what some of you people call “Indians”.)
: Part 2
LIBERTY SPIKES
Tom
A variation of the Mohawk was liberty spikes, a crown of spikes that ran from ear to ear across the forehead instead of front to back.
Street SpikesThe Unseen
Neal,
The Last Hope
“The Universal Punk Shoe.”
Piercings
skate-punk baggy shorts, wallet chains patches, band t-shirts, colorful hairdos, Pyramid-studded belts…
Bondage Pants
NOTE: Many people who are in the scene do not display these fashions, these are just some of many fashions often portrayed by punk rockers.
Dickies pants
Skate shoes
Backpacks
Tattoos
Punk Rockers are notorious for their style. Many continue traditional styles seen in earlier days, others try to develop their own look, some choose not to make a spectacle of themselves with odd and crazy styles, and still others choose the simplicity of band t-shirts and pants.
Some choose to sport vintage looks, and many choose to shop at thrift stores (such as the Salvation Army), purchasing clothes at a reasonable price while not contributing to the profits of growing corporations.
Name: Tom
Punk means: A community
Favorite Bands: LTJ, Rancid, Earth Crisis
Has his own band
If you start your own band: Play music that everyone in band likes
Got him into Punk: Message of unity
Different moods: May feel Emo at one moment, then a little Hardcore
Anything else?: “Drink the booze you lose”
Truly, Punk Rock is and always has been about the punk rockers. It is a community made up of those who participate, there are no requirements, it is the freedom to express yourself through this median of music.
Your Narrator, the creator, Kristina…
Punktopia – http://bgaze.tripod.com/punktopia/movements.html
Anarchy info - http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsm.html
Yesterdayland – http://www.yesterdayland.com
Anarchy Archives - http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/britanniaanarchy.html
Thomas Dewing – interview, ideas, and inspiration.
Mosh Pit - http://www.altx.com/interzones/gangsta/mosh.html
History - http://mt.essortment.com/punkrockhistor_rapl.htm
Anti-Racist Action – http://www.ara.com
CrimethInc – http://www.crimethinc.com
Impact Zine – http://www.impactzine.com
Anti-Flag – http://www.anti-flag.com
Ryan &Punks Before Profits- http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/punksbeforeprofits
Any questions, comments, words of wisdom?
Less Talk, More Rock!
To truly get the full real experience of punk rock, you’d have to pick up some albums and attend some real punk shows, not the kind where you pay $25+ for ONE ticket!
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