…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
POLITICS
Punk 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 day
You see it in the headlines and you feel so sick
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?
Chorus
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
We are all human
It's time to prove it
*Repeat Chorus*
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 citizen
Greed, envy, fear, hate- the competition has to stop!
When you see someone down - now is the time to pick `em up
Set our difference aside and never look back!
Isn't everybody tired of the fighting?
Killing?
Dying?
Hatred?
Violence?
*Excerpts from "I Have a Dream"
by Dr. Martin Luther King*
“…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.
“A Strong People do not need a
strong Government”-Darren
Kramer, Impact Press
Anarchism
people voluntarily cooperate to meet everyone's needs
Free agreements between groups to satisfy needs and aspirations
without bosses or rulers – no government, law, authority.
without sacrificing individual liberties.
Anarchists are opposed to chaos.
The
Media
School
War
“It’s the Patriotic Duty of citizens to challenge
illegal laws…”- Tom Crumpacker, Impact Zine
Environment
HARDCO
RE
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
MODERN PUNK
Dead
Kennedys
Mod Punk abandoned the oldskool sound, to a newer,
fresher sound for a brand new generation of punk rock
kids.
Fat Mike, NOFX
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.
The Get Up Kids
Buddy Holly
• 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.
There are many other styles of
music that do not fit in the
above categories.
MXPX
sexism
SXE = No drugs, No Alcohol, No promiscuous
sex
No Meat or
fish, No
Gelatin, diff.
categories
Consume No
Animal
Products
Anti-Racist Action
(ARA)
• “Network of
regular people
working together to
decrease racism,
sexism, homophobia,
bigotry, antiSemitism, and the
unfairness often
suffered by the
disabled, youngest,
oldest, and poorest
of our people.”
Myth: Getting tough on crime reduces
crime.
Fact: States with the toughest law
enforcement have the most crime
Police Brutality per 100,000 People
Actual
Occurrence at
Binghamton
University. Kid
was handing out
voting material.
6% 1%
US
UK
93%
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.”
Underground Shows
Venues
Place where shows are held
The “scene”
Kids who attend shows
Flyers
Propaganda, advertisement
Bands
Small tours, DIY
Record Labels
Indie, non-corporate
MISFITS
I went to this! With
My boyfriend!
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.
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
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’…
Express
yourself
Create and
develop as
a person
Individual
-ity
SelfInvention
Gender,
Age, Race,
Sexuality
Equality
Social
Meaning
DIY – no
specialists
or systems
AntiConsumer
-ism
Free
Speech
Mainly
for the
unheard
-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
No TRUE
punks fit
this
stereotype.
“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
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 selfemployment 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
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.
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”.)
Originally, it represented
an awareness and anger
towards the existence of
povety (and desire for
change) by punk rockers.
Mohawk DOWN
: Part 2
LIBERTY SPIKES
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 Spikes
The Unseen
Neal,
The
Last
Hope
“The Universal Punk Shoe.”
skate-punk baggy shorts, wallet chains patches,
band t-shirts, colorful hairdos, Pyramid-studded
belts…
Skate shoes
Dickies pants
Backpacks
Piercings
Tattoos
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.
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/britanniaanarc
hy.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 Profitshttp://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!
Corporate
Punk Rock