punk & new wave
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Punk and New Wave
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Instrumentation
Vocals (mainly male)
Electric guitar
Bass Drums
Keyboards (occasionally)
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Performance and Arrangement
Hard-edged, raw and chaotic stripped down, small
ensembles
Vocals often delivered at shouting level
Simple melodies, covering a few pitches
Simple chord structures
Fast tempos
Drums loud and trashy
Songs often short around 2 minutes long
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Technology and Production
DIY ethic to the production
Bands used independent small studios and wentfor a raw unprocessed sound
No clever production tricks Guitar sounds often distorted
Effects were still used, but producers avoided the
polished sound of disco and pop of the era No spacey, psychedelic use of effects like delay
and flanging, and no lush reverbs
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Main Artists
Sex pistols
The Clash
The Stranglers
The Jam
The Undertones
Punk acts from the USA included the Ramones and
the Patti Smith Group
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Influences
Rock and Roll
Hard Rock sounds of bands like The Who
Early 1960s pop
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Key Facts and Terminology
Started Around 1975 or 1976 in the US and UK; 1977was the year punk exploded
By 1980 most punk bands had split or moved indifferent directions
Punk was a reaction against the excesses of technical,highly produced progressive rock
Designed to be aggressive, anti-establishment,disposable music for the people
Social and political commentary was often the mainthrust of the lyrics; high unemployment and the battlebetween the unions and government over workingconditions influenced punk
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Several bands or songs were banned from radio and TV
play, venues got smashed up Many bands supported political movements such as The
Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism
Chaotic dancing pogo-ing and spitting was common
amongst fans at gigs
Fashion was important custom-made clothing
covered with zips and safety pins, lots of black, kilts
and tartan.
Hairstyles included the Mohican, often spiked up and
dyed bright colours
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The Ramones
From New York, the Ramones are often referred
to as the first punk band.
Similarly to the development in the UK, in the
USA there was a reaction against the perceivedlack of edge to most pop.
The Ramones were an important part of the
music scene based at CBGBs club, where manyother post-punk and new-wave acts developed
their sound through live performances.
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New Wave
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Instrumentation
Vocals (male and female)
Backing vocals
Guitar Drums
Percussion
Bass keyboards
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Performance and Arrangement
Fairly raw and unpolished
Wide range of approaches due to varied
stylistic influences, from edge power pop to
reggae and disco, so delivery depended on
style
Song writing became more important, with
some clever pop songs, but avoiding the
complexity of progressive rock
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Technology and Production
Similar to punk the aim was to achieve an
energetic and unprocessed sound of real
musicians
The productions were still often a bit more
polished than punk
Use of keyboards and more variety in the
arrangements often gave more depth to the
sound than was usual for punk
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Main Artists
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
The Police
The Pretenders Blondie
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Influences
Punk
Hard Rock
Reggae Funk
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Key Facts and Terminology
Started in the late 1970s
Continued into the early 1980s, though manybands and artists went on to have successful
careers as pop artists Many of the new-wave acts were signed to
independent record companies such as Stiff
The New York club CBGBs was an importantvenue for new wave, with bands like Blondie,New York Dolls and Talking Heads evolving theirsound there through frequent gigs
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Lyrics dealt with social and political issues
there was a lot of clever lyricists such as Ian
Dury and Elvis Costello
Many of the British new-wave bands did not
gain success in the USA, although the Police,
The Pretenders and Elvis Costello had
moderate chart popularity
Bands like Joy Division, The Cure and
Psychedelic Furs emerged towards the end of
new wave
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Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Elvis Costello was a singer-songwriter who
went on to explore many different styles
including country, folk and big-band jazz
throughout the 1980s, 1990s and into the newmillennium.
This early punk-influenced material also took
stylistic features of reggae and classic pop
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